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Fred Astaire
Fred Astaire was an American dancer, actor, singer, musician, choreographer, and presenter, whose career in stage, film, and television spanned 76 years. He is widely regarded as the "greatest popular-music dancer of all time". He received an Honorary Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, a David di Donatello Award, three Emmy Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, and a Grammy Award.
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Born 10 May 1899 · Died 22 June 1987 · Q100937
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2026· 6 entries
Yahoo: Fred Astaire at Home: Tour the Dance Virtuoso’s Offstage Life in 10 Photos
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Public attention spiked: 7,125 Wikipedia readers in one day, 3.3× the usual 2,188, with 1 article edits. Coverage that week: “Tom Holland Is Training For His Fred Astaire Biopic” (Outlook India).
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Outlook India: Tom Holland Is Training For His Fred Astaire Biopic
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Public attention spiked: 15,636 Wikipedia readers in one day, 7.1× the usual 2,188, with 6 article edits. Coverage that week: “Tom Holland Is Filming Fred Astaire Biopic Next and Plans to ‘Do All of the Dancing’ Himself: ‘I’ve Got So Much Work to Do’” (Variety).
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Variety: Tom Holland Is Filming Fred Astaire Biopic Next and Plans to ‘Do All of the Dancing’ Himself: ‘I’ve Got So Much Work to Do’
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2021· 2 entries
PopSugar: Tom Holland Is Ready to "Dust Off the Old Tap Shoes" as Fred Astaire in the Upcoming Biopic
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Tom Holland announced that he would be portraying Astaire in an upcoming biopic directed by Paul King and penned by Steven Levenson
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2017· 2 entries
The Sun: When and how did Fred Astaire die, what musicals did he make with Ginger Rogers and what dances were his most famous?
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Jazz: Fred Astaire
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2013· 2 entries
Released album “The Ultimate Doubles”.
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Released album “The Early Years at RKO”.
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2012· 1 entry
Released album “Coleção Folha grandes vozes, Volume 4: Fred Astaire”.
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2010· 1 entry
Released album “The Essential Collection”.
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2008· 2 entries
Awarded Grammy Hall of Fame for Top Hat, White Tie and Tails (2008).
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Film footage taken by Fred Stone of Astaire performing in Gay Divorce with Luce's successor, Dorothy Stone, in New York in 1933 was uncovered by dancer and historian Betsy Baytos and now represents the earliest known per
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2006· 4 entries
Awarded Grammy Hall of Fame (2006).
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Released album “Together”.
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Released album “Manhattan Melodies Songs of New York”.
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Released album “The Great American Songbook”.
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2005· 2 entries
Awarded Grammy Hall of Fame for They Can't Take That Away from Me (2005).
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Released album “Complete Norman Granz Sessions”.
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2004· 1 entry
Awarded Grammy Hall of Fame for Night and Day (2004).
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2003· 4 entries
Released album “The Essential Fred Astaire”.
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Released album “My Greatest Songs”.
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Released album “Fred Astaire’s Finest Hour”.
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Released album “Complete Recordings, Volume 3: Top Hat, White Tie & Tails (1933-1936)”.
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2002· 4 entries
Released album “Golden Greats”.
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Released album “Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town / Frosty the Snowman”.
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Released album “Top Hat, White Tie & Tails”.
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Released album “Top Hat”.
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2001· 2 entries
Released album “Shall We Dance”.
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Released album “Complete Recordings, Volume 2: Night & Day (1931-1933)”.
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2000· 4 entries
Released album “Crazy Feet”.
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Awarded Grammy Hall of Fame for Cheek to Cheek (2000).
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Released album “Ginger Rogers & Fred Astaire: Volume 2”.
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Released album “Fred Astaire Original Recordings 1935-1940”.
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1999· 5 entries
Released album “The Centenary Collection”.
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Awarded Grammy Hall of Fame for The Astaire Story (1999).
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A special Grammy award to honor recordings that are at least twenty-five years old and that have "qualitative or historical significance"
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Released album “Fascinating Rhythm”.
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The American Film Institute named Astaire the fifth-greatest male star of Classic Hollywood cinema in 100 Years
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1998· 3 entries
Awarded Grammy Hall of Fame for The Way You Look Tonight (1998).
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Released album “Let’s Face the Music and Dance”.
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Released album “Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers at RKO”.
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1997· 1 entry
Released album “A Portrait of Fred Astaire”.
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1996· 1 entry
Released album “パリの恋人 オリジナル・サウンドトラック”.
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1995· 5 entries
Released album “The Best of Fred Astaire: 18 Timeless Recordings”.
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Released album “Bing Crosby & Friends”.
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Released album “Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire, Volume 3: Shall We Dance / Carefree”.
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Released album “Ses films et ses chansons / Songs and Pictures”.
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Released album “Ginger Rogers & Fred Astaire, Volume 1: The Gay Divorcee / Top Hat”.
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1994· 6 entries
Released album “Steppin' Out: Astaire Sings”.
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Released album “Let’s Face the Music”.
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Released album “Fred Astaire Volume 2: Let's Face The Music And Dance”.
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Released album “Top Hat: Hits from Hollywood”.
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Released album “Cheek to Cheek”.
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Released album “Songs from the Movies”.
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1993· 3 entries
Released album “Steppin' Out: Fred Astaire at MGM”.
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Released album “The Cream of Fred Astaire”.
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Released album “Best of Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire: A Couple of Song and Dance Men”.
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1992· 2 entries
Released album “Astairable Fred”.
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Released album “Crazy Feet!”.
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1991· 2 entries
Released album “A Fine Romance”.
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Released album “Puttin' On The Ritz”.
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1989· 3 entries
Awarded Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award (1989).
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Released album “"Nice Work": Fred Astaire Sings Gershwin”.
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Released album “Fred & Ginger: The Story”.
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1988· 2 entries
For Ed Reitan, Don Kent, and Dan Einstein
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Released album “They Can’t Take These Away From Me”.
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1987· 4 entries
Died 1987-06-22.
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Awarded Capezio Dance Award (1987).
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Released album “An Evening With Fred Astaire”.
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Released album “Best Of Fred Astaire From MGM Classic Films”.
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1983· 1 entry
Released album “Fred Astaire Sings”.
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1981· 1 entry
Awarded AFI Life Achievement Award (1981).
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1980· 1 entry
At the age of 81, he married a second time
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1979· 1 entry
As Chameleon, the possible father of Starbuck, in "The Man with Nine Lives", a role written for him by Donald P
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1978· 4 entries
Awarded Kennedy Center Honors (1978).
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Awarded Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie for A Family Upside Down (1978).
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Released album “The Astaire Story Vol.2”.
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Co-starred with Helen Hayes in a well received television film A Family Upside Down in which they played an elderly couple coping with failing health
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1976· 4 entries
Awarded BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for The Towering Inferno (1976).
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Astaire played a supporting role, as a dog owner, in the cult movie The Amazing Dobermans, co-starring Barbara Eden and James Franciscus, and played Dr
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Released album “Attitude Dancing”.
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British talk-show host Michael Parkinson asked Astaire who his favorite dancing partner was, on Parkinson
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1974· 1 entry
Won Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture for The Towering Inferno (1974).
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1970· 1 entry
Released album “Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town”.
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1968· 1 entry
Released album “Finian's Rainbow (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)”.
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1961· 1 entry
Awarded Primetime Emmy Award for Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program (1961).
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1960· 5 entries
Won Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award (1960).
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Awarded star on Hollywood Walk of Fame (1960).
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The Kennedy Center Honors in 1970, and the AFI Life Achievement Award in 1981
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The Film Society of Lincoln Center tribute in 1973, the Kennedy Center Honors in 1978, and AFI Life Achievement Award in 1980
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American Theatre Hall of Fame in 1972, and the Television Hall of Fame in 1989
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1959· 2 entries
Awarded Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie for An Evening with Fred Astaire (1959).
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Awarded Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Variety Series for An Evening with Fred Astaire (1959).
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1956· 1 entry
Released album “Mr. Top Hat”.
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1954· 1 entry
Astaire was about to start work on a new musical, Daddy Long Legs (1955) with Leslie Caron at 20th Century-Fox
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1953· 1 entry
Released album “The Astaire Story”.
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1952· 1 entry
Astaire recorded The Astaire Story, a four-volume album with a quintet led by Oscar Peterson
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1950· 1 entry
Won Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for Three Little Words (1950).
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1949· 2 entries
Awarded Academy Honorary Award (1949).
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At MGM for their final outing, The Barkleys of Broadway, the only one of their films together to be shot in Technicolor
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1947· 1 entry
Founded the Fred Astaire Dance Studios, which he subsequently sold in 1966
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1946· 2 entries
And was an early arrival on broadcast television
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His horse Triplicate won the Hollywood Gold Cup and San Juan Capistrano Handicap
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1942· 1 entry
Released album “Song Hits From the Paramount Picture Holiday Inn”.
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1940· 1 entry
And nurtured a lifelong ambition to be a successful popular song composer
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1939· 1 entry
To freelance and pursue new film opportunities, with mixed though generally successful outcomes
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1937· 1 entry
With an inexperienced, non-dancing Joan Fontaine, unsuccessfully as it turned out
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1934· 1 entry
Until his last film musical, Finian's Rainbow in 1968, when director Francis Ford Coppola overruled him
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1933· 2 entries
For his significant Hollywood debut in the successful musical film Dancing Lady
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Astaire married 25-year-old Phyllis Potter (formerly Phyllis Livingston Baker [1908–1954]), a Boston-born New York socialite and former wife of Eliphalet Nott Potter III (1906–1981), despite the objections of his mother
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1932· 1 entry
When Adele married her first husband, Lord Charles Cavendish, the second son of the 9th Duke of Devonshire
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1930· 1 entry
"I don't think that I will plunge the nation into war by stating that Fred is the greatest tap-dancer in the world
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1926· 1 entry
Was one of the judges at the 'Charleston Championship of the World ' competition at the Royal Albert Hall, where Lew Grade was declared the winner
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1917· 1 entry
With Over the Top, a patriotic revue, and performed for U
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1912· 1 entry
Astaire became an Episcopalian
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1899· 2 entries
Born 1899-05-10.
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In Omaha, Nebraska, the son of Johanna "Ann" (née Geilus; 1878–1975) and Friedrich "Fritz" Emanuel Austerlitz (1868–1923), known in the U
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