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Fred Astaire (born Frederick Austerlitz; May 10, 1899 – June 22, 1987) was an American dancer, singer, actor, choreographer, musician, and television presenter.
His stage and subsequent film and television careers spanned a total of 76 years, during which he made 31 musical films and several award-winning television specials and issued numerous recordings. He was named the fifth Greatest Male Star of Old Hollywood by the American Film Institute. As a dancer, he is best remembered for his sense of rhythm, his legendary perfectionism, and as the dancing partner and on-screen romantic interest of Ginger Rogers, with whom he co-starred in a series of ten Hollywood musicals which transformed the genre.
Gene Kelly, another major innovator in filmed dance, said that "the history of dance on film begins with Astaire." Beyond film and television, many noted dancers and choreographers, including Rudolf Nureyev, Sammy Davis, Jr., Michael Jackson, Gregory Hines, Mikhail Baryshnikov, George Balanchine, Jerome Robbins, and Madhuri Dixit, also acknowledged his importance and influence. Astaire ranks as the fifth greatest male star of Classic Hollywood cinema in AFI's 100 Years...100 Stars.
Fred Astaire is the third studio album by the Croatian alternative rock band Pips, Chips & Videoclips. The album was recorded in the period between May and June 1997 and released in October that same year.
Fred Astaire won the 1998 Porin Awards in the Album of the Year and Best Vocal Collaboration categories (the latter was awarded to the track "Plači", featuring Darko Rundek).
In this Swing Time clip, Lucky, Astaire, saves Penny's, Rogers, job by showing how much she has taught him. The first true dance number with the two, the other being with Fred fumbling and pretending to be a terrible dancer. Both scenes, however, go to the same song, Pick Yourself Up, this scene without lyrics and much more lively with the other more calm, with lyrics, between the two. Music by Jerome Kern and Lyrics by Dorothy Fields
From the movie: ROYAL WEDDING 1951 It never ceases to amaze me how a great dancer like Fred Astaire can take the simplest prop and do something magical with it.
Top 10 Iconic Fred Astaire Dance Scenes // Subscribe: http://www.youtube.com/c/MsMojo?sub_confirmation=1 Sometimes you just want to watch Fred Astaire dance on screen. For this list we're looking at Astaire's most impressive footwork that still blows us away to this day. We're basing our picks on a mix of fun choreography, clever camera work and the over-the-top energy that makes all of Fred's moves a joy to watch. We’ve included movies like “Follow the Fleet”, “The Band Wagon” and more! List Entries and Rank: 10. "Let Yourself Go"-Follow the Fleet (1936) 9. "The Shorty George" -"You Were Never Lovelier" (1942) 8. "Begin The Beguine" -"Broadway Melody of 1940" 7. "Dem Bones Cafe" -"The Band Wagon" (1953) 6. "You're All the World to Me - "Royal Wedding" (1951) 5. "I'll Be Hard to Handl...
The movie is "You'll never get rich" directed by Sidney Lanfield. Music is Led Zeppelin's "Rock 'n' Roll" on their cult album "Led Zeppelin IV".
Fred Astaire and Bob Hope present the Academy Awards for Documentary Feature to Bernard Chevry for Arthur Rubinstein - The Love of Life, and for Documentary Short Subject to Denis Sanders and Robert M. Fresco for Czechoslovakia 1968 at the 42nd Academy Awards. Orchestra conducted by Elmer Bernstein.
Fred Astaire Cuts Loose at the Oscars! At the 42nd Academy Awards, Fred Astaire and Bob Hope present the Oscar for Documentary Feature to Bernard Chevry for 'Arthur Rubinstein - The Love of Life,' and the Oscar for Documentary Short Subject to Denis Sanders and Robert M. Fresco for 'Czechoslovakia 1968.' Orchestra conducted by Elmer Bernstein. Watch the full video ►► https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnrbdNjf-aw Subscribe for more #Oscars videos ►► http://osca.rs/subscribeyt Fred Astaire Cuts Loose at the Oscars #FredAstaire #YouTubeShorts #Shorts #Theoscars #broadway #TheReader #AcademyAward #movies #filmmaking #filmmakers #celebrity #dance #music #academyawards
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FRED ASTAIRE FAMOUS CEILING DANCE | You are all the world to me | CULT SCENE | THE BEST OF CINEMA | Watch one of the most fameous dancing sceen in the history of cinema. The best of Fred Astaire. If You like the video please remember to put the thumb up 👍 or to... ❤️SUBSCRIBE TO OUR CHANNEL: https://bit.ly/38yXEjn Scene with "You are all the world to me" comes from "Royal Wedding" musical available to watch here: 🎬 https://bit.ly/2wPoCWq More on Feature Films channel: 🎬ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES: https://bit.ly/2S4ORz8 🎬WATCH BEST CLASSIC MOVIES: https://bit.ly/2TOOhb7 🎬WATCH BEST CLASSIC COMEDIES: https://bit.ly/2OL6frS
What can I say other than two masters Fred Astaire in his movie "putting on the Ritz" and Michael Jackson's song "Smooth Criminal" fused together to make a more potent or should I say modern version of a great song and dance routine. Fred Astaire Date of Birth 10 May 1899, Omaha, Nebraska, USA Date of Death 22 June 1987, Los Angeles, California, USA (pneumonia) Michael Jackson Date of Birth 29 August 1958, Gary, Indiana, USA Date of Death 25 June 2009, Los Angeles, California, USA (homicide)
"Cheek to Cheek" is a song written by Irving Berlin in 1935,for the Fred Astaire/Ginger Rogers movie Top Hat (1935).In the movie, Astaire sings the song to Rogers as they dance. The song was nominated for the Best Song Academy Award for 1936, which it lost to "Lullaby of Broadway". Heaven, I'm in Heaven, And my heart beats so that I can hardly speak; And I seem to find the happiness I seek When we're out together dancing, cheek to cheek Heaven, I'm in Heaven, And the cares that hung around me thro' the week Seem to vanish like a gambler's lucky streak When we're out together dancing, cheek to cheek Oh! I love to climb a mountain, And to reach the highest peak, But it doesn't thrill me half as much As dancing cheek to cheek Oh! I love to go out fishing In a river or a creek, But I don't...
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Provided to YouTube by Universal Music Group Isn't This A Lovely Day · Fred Astaire Mr. Top Hat ℗ 1952 UMG Recordings, Inc. Released on: 1957-02-01 Producer: Norman Granz Associated Performer, Trumpet: Charlie Shavers Associated Performer, Saxophone: Flip Phillips Associated Performer, Guitar: Barney Kessel Associated Performer, Double Bass: Ray Brown Associated Performer, Drums: Alvin Stoller Associated Performer, Piano: Oscar Peterson Composer Lyricist: Irving Berlin Auto-generated by YouTube.
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Provided to YouTube by BMG Rights Management (US) LLC Fred Astaire · Jukebox The Ghost Off To The Races ℗ 2018 Jukebox The Ghost, LLC / This Fiction under exclusive license to BMG Rights Management (US) LLC Released on: 2019-02-15 Vocals, Piano: Ben Thornewill Vocals, Guitar: Tommy Siegel Drums, Vocals: Jesse Kristin Producer: Chris Wallace Composer: Ben Thornewill Composer: Tommy Siegel Composer: Jesse Kristin Composer: Chris Wallace Auto-generated by YouTube.
The Way Yoy Look Tonight as sung by Fred Astaire in the August 1936 film Swing Time, this is the album version released later. http://www.fredastaire.com/index.php Click to buy this song or the album from Amazon http://www.amazon.com/The-Way-You-Loo... Lyrics: Some day, when I'm awfully low, when the world is cold, I will feel a glow just thinking of you, and the way you look tonight. Oh but you're lovely, with your smile so warm and your cheeks so soft. There is nothing for me but to love you, just the way you look tonight. With each word your tenderness grows, tearing my fear apart... And that laugh that wrinkles your nose, touches my foolish heart. Lovely.. Never, never change. Keep that breathless charm, won't you please arrange it, cus I love you.. Just the way you look to...
Track List: 1-4 1. Fred Astaire - Puttin' On The Ritz (0:00) 2. Fred Astaire - Lovely To Look At (2:55) 3. Fred Astaire - Nice Work If You Can Get It (6:27) 4. Fred Astaire - I've Got My Eyes On You (8:38) Part 1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiE_AN4TzCA Part 2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L87940HV7C0 Part 3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0su3T58OGQ Part 4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWNkHeiAfbQ All tracks lifted from 4 LP set 'The Astaire Story'. The Astaire Story is a 1952 album by Fred Astaire. The album was conceived of and produced by Norman Granz, the founder of Clef Records (and later Verve Records), who was also responsible for the Jazz at the Philharmonic concerts, at which all of the musicians on the album had performed. Recorded at Radio Recorders, Hollywood, ...
For a digitally enhanced version of this video check here: https://youtu.be/HLBIcyuXCDU "Cheek to Cheek" is a song written by Irving Berlin in 1935, for the Fred Astaire/Ginger Rogers movie Top Hat (1935). In the movie, Astaire sings the song to Rogers as they dance. The song was nominated for the Best Song Academy Award for 1936, which it lost to "Lullaby of Broadway". The song spent five weeks at #1 on Your Hit Parade and was named the #1 song of 1935. Astaire's 1935 recording with the Leo Reisman Orchestra was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2000. In 2004, Astaire's version finished at No. 15 on AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs survey of top tunes in American cinema.
Timeless scene from the 1936 movie "Swing Time". Fred Astaire singing "The Way You Look Tonight" No copyright infringement intended.
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Fred Astaire (born Frederick Austerlitz; May 10, 1899 – June 22, 1987) was an American dancer, singer, actor, choreographer, musician, and television presenter.
His stage and subsequent film and television careers spanned a total of 76 years, during which he made 31 musical films and several award-winning television specials and issued numerous recordings. He was named the fifth Greatest Male Star of Old Hollywood by the American Film Institute. As a dancer, he is best remembered for his sense of rhythm, his legendary perfectionism, and as the dancing partner and on-screen romantic interest of Ginger Rogers, with whom he co-starred in a series of ten Hollywood musicals which transformed the genre.
Gene Kelly, another major innovator in filmed dance, said that "the history of dance on film begins with Astaire." Beyond film and television, many noted dancers and choreographers, including Rudolf Nureyev, Sammy Davis, Jr., Michael Jackson, Gregory Hines, Mikhail Baryshnikov, George Balanchine, Jerome Robbins, and Madhuri Dixit, also acknowledged his importance and influence. Astaire ranks as the fifth greatest male star of Classic Hollywood cinema in AFI's 100 Years...100 Stars.
I thought that nothing could help
To avoid depressions inside me
Fatalistic words passed my mind
Fear and hate and darkness around me
You came, you carefull tried
Not to show your wonders about me
Many talks, they turned step by step
Into novels, all made to change me
Just a summer love affair
Made me feel like Fred Astaire
Jumping up and up and flyin' around
Your love lifts me off the ground
I thought that nothing could help
To avoid depressions inside me
Many talks, they turned step by step
Into novels, all made to change me
Just a summer love affair
Made me feel like Fred Astaire
Jumping up and up and flyin' around