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Fred Astaire

A Wisdom Archive on Fred Astaire

Fred Astaire

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Fred Astaire: Encyclopedia II - Fred Astaire - Early life and career

His father was an Austrian immigrant and a Catholic, though the family originally has Jewish roots; his mother was born in the U.S. to Lutheran German parents; Astaire became an Episcopalian during his youth. "Astaire" was a name taken by him and his sister Adele for their vaudeville act when they were about 5 years old. It is said to have come from an uncle surnamed "L'Astaire". Many sources state that the Astaires appeared in a 1915 film entitled Fanchon, the Cricket starring Mary Pickford, but this is a myth (although it is ...

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Fred Astaire: Encyclopedia - 1899

Canada - Mexico - South Africa - U.S. Rail Transport - Science - Sports Births - Deaths 1899 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). 1899 - Events. January 1 - End of Spanish rule in Cuba. January 1 - Queens and Staten Island merge with New York City. January 6 - Lord Curzon becomes Viceroy of India. January 17 - United States takes possession of Wake Island. January 19 - Anglo-Egyptian Sudan is formed. ...

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Fred Astaire: Encyclopedia II - Cole Porter - The early years

Porter was born in Peru, Indiana, into a wealthy Protestant family; his grandfather was a coal and timber speculator. Music was one of his escapes to get away from the iron hand of his grandfather, J.O. Cole entertained people on boats and got lost in the music, which was his life. His mother started Cole Porter in musical training at an early age, and Porter learned the violin at age 6, the piano at age 8, and he wrote his first operetta (with help from his mother) at age 10. Cole's mother, Kate Porter, recognized and supported her son's ta ...

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Cole Porter, Cole Porter - The early years, Cole Porter - The middle years, Cole Porter - Sexuality, Cole Porter - The later years, Cole Porter - Song samples, Cole Porter - Well-known songs, Cole Porter - Sources

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Fred Astaire: Encyclopedia - Artie Shaw

Arthur Jacob Arshawsky (May 23, 1910 – December 30, 2004), better known as Artie Shaw, was an accomplished jazz clarinetist, composer, bandleader, and writer. He was born in New York City, United States, and began learning the saxophone when he was 15 and, by age 16, had begun to tour with a band. He returned to New York and became a session musician. During the Swing Era, his big band was very popular with hits like "B ...

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Fred Astaire: Encyclopedia - Audrey Hepburn

Audrey Hepburn (4 May 1929 – 20 January 1993) was an Anglo-Dutch actress, fashion model, and humanitarian. Born Audrey Kathleen Ruston in Brussels, Belgium, she was the only child of Joseph Anthony Ruston, an Anglo-Irish banker, and Baroness Ella van Heemstra, a Dutch aristocrat descended from French and English kings. Her father later appended the name Hepburn to his surname, and Audrey became Audrey Hepburn-Ruston. She had two half-brothers, Alexander and Ian Quarles van Ufford ...

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Fred Astaire: Encyclopedia - Ballroom dance

Ballroom dance, depending on how it is defined, may refer to a wide variety of partner dances. Typically it includes Standard (also termed Smooth ot Modern) dances such as waltz or foxtrot, and Latin (also termed Rhythm) dances such as cha cha and rumba. Standard dances are normally danced to straight-beat, Western music; couples dance around the floor; and when formalized, the lady wears a long gown and the gentleman a bow-tie and tails. Latin dances are normally danced to off-beat, latin or jive music; co ...

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Fred Astaire: Encyclopedia - Arthur Freed

Arthur Freed (September 9, 1894 - April 12, 1973) was born Arthur Grossman in Charleston, South Carolina. He was a Jewish-American lyricist and a Hollywood film producer. Freed began his career in vaudeville, and he appeared with the likes of the Marx Brothers. He soon began to write songs, and was eventually hired by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. For years, he wrote lyrics for num ...

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Fred Astaire: Encyclopedia - 1930s

1900s 1910s 1920s - 1930s - 1940s 1950s 1960s 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1930s - Events and trends. The 1930s were described as an abrupt shift to more radical lifestyles, as countries were struggling to find a solution to the global depression. In Australia, this decade was known as the Dirty Thirties. In both Central Europe and Eastern Europe, Fascism, Nazism, Stalinism,dominated as the solution, the first two adopting war-oriented economic policies and the l ...

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Fred Astaire: Encyclopedia - Billiards

Billiards is a family of games played on a table, with a stick, known as a cue stick, which is used to strike balls, moving them around the table. All billiard games are generally regarded to have evolved into indoor games from outdoor stick and ball games.[1] The word billiard may have evolved from the French word 'billart' which means mace, the forerunner to the modern cue. The word pool generally refers to pocket billiard gam ...

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Fred Astaire: Encyclopedia - 1960s

1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 The 1960s decade refers to the years from 1960 to 1969, inclusive. Informally, it can also include a few years at the end of the preceding decade or the beginning of the following decade. The Sixties has also come to refer to the complex of inter-related cultural and political events which occurred in approximately that period, in western countries, particularly Britain, France, the United States and West Germany. Social upheaval was not limited to just these na ...

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Fred Astaire: Encyclopedia - Bandwagon

Bandwagon may refer to: any of several observable "copycat" behaviours, as used in the phrase "to jump on the bandwagon"; see bandwagon effect and bandwagon fallacy. Often falsely used when describing phenomena that are beyond the comprehension of normal beings. a wagon that carries the band in a parade The Band Wagon is a 1953 MGM movie musical starring Fred Astaire and Cyd Charisse bandwagoning, a term in international relations "falling off the wagon" is a colloquialism for re

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Fred Astaire: Encyclopedia - 1987

1987 (MCMLXXXVII) is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. 1987 - Events. 1987 - January. January 1 - Frobisher Bay, Northwest Territories, changes its name to Iqaluit. In 1999, it will become the capital of Nunavut. January 3 - Aretha Franklin becomes the first woman inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. January 4 - An Amtrak train en route from Washington, DC to Boston collides with Conrail engines killing 16. ...

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Fred Astaire: Encyclopedia - 1987 in music

See also: 1986 in music, other events of 1987, 1988 in music, 1980s in music and the list of 'years in music' 1987 in music - Events. January 3 - Aretha Franklin becomes the first woman inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. January 16 - The Beastie Boys become the first act to be censored by American Bandstand. January - Steve "Silk" Hurley's innovative "Jack Your Body" becomes the first house music record to top the UK singles chart. February 6 - Sonny Bono a ...

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Fred Astaire: Encyclopedia - Academy Honorary Award

The Academy Honorary Award is given irregularly by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to celebrate motion picture achievements that are not covered by existing Academy Awards. In the early years of the academy, it was often used to reward significant achievements of the year that did not fit in existing categories. This subsequently led to several new categories. In recent years the academy has awarded ...

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Fred Astaire: Encyclopedia - Ziegfeld Follies

The Ziegfeld Follies were a series of elaborate theatrical productions on Broadway in New York City from 1907 through 1931. Inspired by the Folies Bergères of Paris, and reportedly suggested to Ziegfeld by his wife, entertainer Anna Held, the Ziegfeld Follies were conceived and mounted by Florenz Ziegfeld. The actual producers of the show were turn-of-the-century producing titans Klaw and Erlanger. The Follies were lavish revues, something in between later Broadway shows and a more elaborate high class Vaudeville variet ...

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Fred Astaire: Encyclopedia - Videotape

Videotape is a means of recording television pictures and accompanying sound onto magnetic tape as opposed to movie film. In virtually all cases, a helical scan video head rotates against the moving tape to record the data in two dimensions, because video signals have a very high bandwidth, and static heads would require extremely high tape speeds. Video tape is used in both video tape recorders (VTRs or, more common, video cassette recorders (VCRs)) and video cameras. Tape is a linear method of storing information, and since n ...

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Fred Astaire: Encyclopedia - Vaudeville

Vaudeville is a style of multi-act theatre which flourished in North America from the 1880s through the 1920s. An evening's "bill" (or schedule of performances) could run the gamut from acrobats to mathematicians, from song-and-dance duos to trick high divers. Indeed, the scope of the presentations was unique in the history of American live performance: music, comedy, feats of athleticism, ...

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Fred Astaire: Encyclopedia - Dance of the United States

Please remove this notice after the article has been expanded. Details are on this talk page or at Wikipedia:Requests for expansion. Architecture Cinema Comic books Cuisine Dance Literature Music Poetry Sculpture Television

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Fred Astaire: Encyclopedia - Dance personalia

Categories: Dance related lists | Dancers | Choreographers Other related archives1899, 1930s, 1940s, 1960, 1971, 1972, 1990, 2002, Agrippina Vaganova, Alexander Godunov, Alicia Alonso, Alvin Ailey, American, Anna Pavlova, Anton Dolin, Arthur Mitchell, Arthur Murray, Bolshoi Ballet, Broadway, Choreographers, Dance related lists, Dancers, Eleanor Powell, Elizaveta Gerdt, Erik Bruhn, Evelyn Hart, Fred Astaire, Galina

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Fred Astaire: Encyclopedia - Cole Porter

Cole Albert Porter (June 9, 1891 – October 15, 1964) was an American composer and songwriter from Indiana. His works include the musical comedies Kiss Me, Kate (1948) (based on Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew), Fifty Million Frenchmen and Anything Goes, as well as songs like "Night and Day", "I Get a Kick Out of You" and "I've Got You Under My Skin". He was noted for his sophisticated lyrics, clever rhymes, and complex forms. Irving Berlin used to refer to "Begin the Beguine" as "that long, l ...

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