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A YouTube Affair With Fred Astaire

Here is the best time an editor might ever have fact-checking: picking through a 3,700-word essay on the song-and-dance partnership of Fred and Adele Astaire. Read More

Fred Astaire Franchised Dance Studios Announces Opening of Franchise in Beirut, Lebanon

Fred Astaire Franchised Dance Studios (FADS), headquartered in Longmeadow, Massachusetts (USA) announced this week the opening of their Beirut, Lebanon dance studio. Read More

A stroppy co-star, first-night nerves and the terror of stepping into Fred Astaire's dancing shoes: Twinkletoes Tom Chamber confides in Petronella Wyatt

When Tom Chambers was five years old, he used to stamp around the kitchen floor at home in the Derbyshire village of Darley Dale. It was his first attempt at tap dancing — 'although I didn't even know what tap was,' he tells me, earnestly, 'but, somehow, I just felt compelled to do it.' Read More

THE DVD SHELF: "Brief Encounter,""Vanya on 42nd Street,""A Night to Remember," Fred Astaire, "Car 54"

  • 12:18 AM — Apr 22 —
  • Source: Playbill

This month we watch a new set of films from Noel Coward and David Lean, including "Brief Encounter"; the Titanic tale, "A Night to Remember"; Louis Malle's "Vanya on 42nd Street"; Fred Astaire in "The Sky's the Limit"; and more. Read More

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Dancer, actor, and singer Fred Astaire worked steadily in various entertainment media during nine decades of the 20th century.... Read the full Fred Astaire bio.

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