Fred Astaire

On stage 11 productions, 15 years

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Worked with more than once12 names

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Also credited on2 works

Silk Stockings
Sunny

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In the literature8 passages

• 89 Easter Parade , with a score by Irving Berlin, starred Judy Garland and Fred Astaire. Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra, and Kathryn Grayson were not in the film.ebooks/Bernstein, Leonard/Leonard Bernstein Letters, The - Leonard Bernstein.txt
• One of the great innovations of On Your Toes , the angle that had initially made us think of it as a vehicle for Fred Astaire, was that for the first time ballet was being incorporated into a musical-comedy book. To be sure, Albertina Rasch had made a specialty of creating Broadway ballets [for example, The Band Wagon of 1931], but these…ebooks/Block, Geoffrey/Enchanted Evenings_The Broadway Musical from 'Show Boat' to Sondheim and Lloyd Webber - Geoffrey Block.txt
• Croce, Arlene. The Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers Book . New York: E. P. Dutton, 1972.ebooks/Block, Geoffrey/Enchanted Evenings_The Broadway Musical from 'Show Boat' to Sondheim and Lloyd Webber - Geoffrey Block.txt
• Mureller, John. “Fred Astaire and the Integrated Musical.” Cinema Journal 24/1 (Fall 1984): 28–40.ebooks/Block, Geoffrey/Enchanted Evenings_The Broadway Musical from 'Show Boat' to Sondheim and Lloyd Webber - Geoffrey Block.txt
• 15 . See Arlene Croce, The Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers Book , 142, 144, and 146 on Ginger Rogers’s film roles as women who cannot make up their minds (including the 1944 Paramount film version of Lady in the Dark ). The idea of a future Mr. Right being able to complete a “dream” song is at least as old as Victor Herbert’s “Ah, Sweet Myst…ebooks/Block, Geoffrey/Enchanted Evenings_The Broadway Musical from 'Show Boat' to Sondheim and Lloyd Webber - Geoffrey Block.txt
• On Monday Steve was hard at work on Ben’s Follies number, “Live, Laugh, Love.” He had figured out a way to construct a debonair Fred Astaire-like song that would include a moment for Ben to catch himself off-guard, leading to the Pirandello moment when he would forget the lyrics and stumble. I was sent to Mathilde’s to pick it up, but she…ebooks/Chapin, Ted/Everything Was Possible_ The Birth of the Musical Follies (Applause Books) - Ted Chapin.txt

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