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- United States dancer and cinema actor noted for his original and graceful tap dancing (1899-1987)
How To Use Fred Astaire In A Sentence
- She starred in famous Hollywood musicals alongside the great dancers Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly.
- Brian Fisher turned bounding leaps into corkscrewing descents and ended them in a perfect Fred Astaire pose.
- In his lifetime, Berlin supplied the score for 19 films, six of them starring Fred Astaire.
- For example, Mike and I loved to re-create dance steps that we watched from the golden age of Hollywood—moves perfected by Gene Kelly and Cyd Charisse, Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. True You
- Bolshoi Ballet before signing on this year with New York City Ballet, skillfully plays on the Baryshnikov trademark - a modernity that winks at the past, recalls the virtuosic ease of Fred Astaire and is never less than hip. Undefined
- Fred Astaire's attire, in his RKO musicals of the 1930s, was always delicately and meticulously designed with performance in mind.
- One dancer who combines both kinds of performance is Shaun Parry, who teaches ballroom and swing at the Fred Astaire studios.
- She got nothing, for instance, out of the juxtaposition of "roaming" and "Romeo" in the verse of Irving Berlin's "I'm Putting All My Eggs in One Basket," a neat half-rhyme on which Fred Astaire for whom Berlin wrote the song never failed to put the sliest of spins. March 2006
- Henrietta Twycross-Martin rightly compares it to a Fred Astaire movie. 2008 November 10 « One-Minute Book Reviews
- If you’d ever wanted to glide across the dance floor with a larger, wryer Fred Astaire, Godfrey was your man. Silver Zombie
