Fred Astaire @kingoftaps

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Fred Astaire @kingoftaps

2 years ago

Fred Astaire in a dance number titled “Say it with Firecrackers” from 1942’s Holiday Inn.

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2 years ago

Fred Astaire and Rita Hayworth in You’ll Never Get Rich (1941)

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3 years ago

Fred Astaire and Rita Hayworth in the song and dance number, “So Near and Yet So Far” from the 1941 film You’ll Never Get Rich.

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4 years ago

Fred Astaire, George and Gracie Burns on the set of A Damsel in Distress (1937)

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4 years ago

Fred Astaire and Audrey Hepburn on the set of the 1957 film Funny Face.

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4 years ago

Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire dancing “The Piccolino” in the 1935 film Top Hat

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4 years ago

Cyd Charisse and Fred Astaire in Silk Stockings (1957)

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4 years ago

George Burns, Fred Astaire and Gracie Allen in “A Damsel in Distress” (1937)

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4 years ago

Fred Astaire in dancing, tapping, and drumming away in “Daddy Long Legs” (1955)

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5 years ago

Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly dance for the 1958 LIFE MAGAZINE Christmas Special.

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5 years ago

@Candy_TsLady @CelebratingTCM It’s from the 1938 film Carefree. The article mentions it, but I only posted a snippet since it was a little long for the post. Sorry for the confusion.

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“There's a widely told story that Astaire did the sequence in one take, and that his shots all landed within a few feet of each other -- all untrue. RKO set up a driving range on its lot in Encino three weeks before principal photography began… (1/3)

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5 years ago

and what you see in the movie was pieced together from the best bits. In the clip below, the golf stuff starts about a minute in. Notice that Astaire wears two golf gloves (with buttons!) throughout.” (Golf Digest, “Fred Astaire, Trick-Shot Artist” by David Owen) (3/3)

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5 years ago

and Astaire practiced the moves for two weeks. "I had about 300 golf balls and five men shagging them, a piano and Hal Borne to play for me," he recalled. The final sequence involved many takes over two days… (2/3)

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5 years ago

Fred Astaire and Audrey Hepburn in a still from Funny Face (1957)

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5 years ago

Fred Astaire photographed by John Miehle

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5 years ago

Fred Astaire, Eleanor Powell, and Ian Hunter in a still for Broadway Melody of 1940.

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5 years ago

@cj_freeway If I remember correctly, it didn’t connect well with the story. Another reason was that the ghost was supposed to be a woman, but it was obvious that there was a man under the sheet so by the end of the day, it was decided to cut that dance number out of the film.

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5 years ago

Fred Astaire and Hermes Pan in a still for the dance number “Me and the Ghost Upstairs” from the 1940 film Second Chorus. This specific scene was removed from the film, but you can find the dance number on YouTube.