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Fred Astaire - what members say
review by from FALLOWFIELD
24 May 2004
review by from Worcestershire
Good Comedy, wrong reasons 9 December 2004
review by A customer from Derby England
Good entertainment 13 August 2010
Fred Astaire - filmography
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Hollywood Musicals Of The 50's
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Debbie Reynolds, Gene Kelly, Howard Keel
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This salute to the Hollywood musicals of the 1950s includes excerpts from 'An American in Paris', 'Kismet', 'Singin' in the Rain', 'Kiss Me Kate', 'Seven Brides for Seven Brothers', 'The Band Wagon' and 'Oklahoma!', amongst others. Stars include Gene Kelly, Fred Astaire, Debbie Reynolds and Donald ..read more »
 
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You're the Top: The Cole Porter Story
(1997)
Starring: Bobby Short, Frank Sinatra, Judy Garland
Director: Allan Albert
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Hosted and narrated by renowned entertainer and Cole Porter devotee Bobby Short, You're the Top: The Cole Porter Story probes the many facets of Porter's persona. One of the most skillful composers ever, Porter created such Broadway and Hollywood hits as Kiss Me Kate, Anything Goes, Silk Stockings ..read more »
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The Towering Inferno
on DVD
(1974)
Starring: O.J. Simpson, William Holden, Faye Dunaway
Director: John Guillermin, Irwin Allen
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A huge glass tower block, touted as the tallest building in the world, bursts into flame on its opening night. An all-star cast includes Steve McQueen as Michael O'Hallorhan, the fire chief determined to get the blaze under control, while Paul Newman stars as embarrassed architect Doug Roberts, ..read more »
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Santa Claus Is Coming To Town
(1970)
Starring: Mickey Rooney, Fred Astaire
Director: Jules Bas, Arthur Rankin Jr.
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The original TV classic, "Santa Claus is Comin' to Town" has been a holiday viewing tradition for over 35 years and stars the vocal talents of the legendary Fred Astaire and Mickey Rooney. This heartwarming tale explains how Kris Kringle becomes the world's most famous gift giver, Santa Claus. It ..read more »
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Finian's Rainbow
(1968)
Starring: Barbara Hancock, Tommy Steele, Keenan Wynn
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
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Nearly 20 years after it opened on Broadway, the E.Y. Harburg/Fred Saidy musical Finian's Rainbow was committed to film. Set in the mythical southern state of Missitucky, the story involves the whimsical Irishman Finian (Fred Astaire) and his daughter Sharon (Petula Clark) arriving in the community ..read more »
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The Notorious Landlady
on DVD
(1962)
Starring: Estelle Winwood, Henry Daniell, Maxwell Reed
Director: Richard Quine
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An American-in-London comedy mystery starring Jack Lemmon. After arriving in London, American diplomat William Gridley (Lemmon) rents space in Carly Hardwicke (Kim Novak)'s house. Promptly falling in love with his new landlady, Gridley takes on the persona of an amateur sleuth when he learns that ..read more »
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On The Beach
on DVD
(1959)
Starring: Anthony Perkins, Ava Gardner, Donna Anderson
Director: Stanley Kramer
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Although there'd been doomsday dramas before it, Stanley Kramer's On the Beach was considered the first important entry in this genre when originally released in 1959. Based on the novel by Nevil Shute, the film is set in the future (1964) when virtually all life on earth has been exterminated by ..read more »
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Funny Face
on DVD
(1957)
Starring: Suzy Parker, Kay Thompson, Audrey Hepburn
Director: Stanley Donen
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This filmed version of the 1927 George Gershwin Broadway musical Funny Face utilizes the play's original star, Fred Astaire, and several of the original tunes, then goes merrily off on its own. Astaire is cast as as fashion photographer Dick Avery (a character based on Richard Avedon, the film's ..read more »
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Funny Face - Blu-ray
(1957)
Starring: Fred Astaire, Audrey Hepburn, Robert Flemyng
Director: Stanley Donen
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This filmed version of the 1927 George Gershwin Broadway musical Funny Face utilizes the play's original star, Fred Astaire, and several of the original tunes, then goes merrily off on its own. Astaire is cast as as fashion photographer Dick Avery (a character based on Richard Avedon, the film's ..read more »
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Silk Stockings
(1957)
Starring: Fred Astaire, Cyd Charisse
Director: Rouben Mamoulian
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Musical remake of the 1939 classic film NINOTCHKA. An alluring, but aloof, female Communist (Cyd Charisse) visits Paris on an assignment to evaluate three Russian officials. But when she meets a charming U.S. filmmaker (Fred Astaire) there, her perspective on the world changes -- and the chilly ..read more »
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Daddy Longlegs
(1955)
Starring: Terry Moore, Thelma Ritter, Fred Clark
Director: Jean Negulesco
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A young orphaned French girl is brought to America to go to a finishing school. She falls in love with her mysterious benefactor, who only identifies himself at her school summer ball. Musical remake of a 1931 film.
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The Band Wagon
on DVD
(1953)
Starring: Oscar Levant, Cyd Charisse, Nanette Fabray
Director: Vincente Minnelli
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One of the most subtle and sophisticated of the musical comedies that came out of MGM's Arthur Freed Unit in the '40s and '50s, The Band Wagon stars Fred Astaire as Tony Hunter, a movie star whose career is in a downturn. Looking for a boost, Tony decides to try starring in a Broadway musical. His ..read more »
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The Belle of New York
(1952)
Starring: Fred Astaire, Keenan Wynn, Vera-Ellen
Director: Charles Walters
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Loosely based on a turn of the century stage play, this 1952 screen treatment is a showcase for sensational songs by Harry Warren and Johnny Mercer, and the incomparable talents of the two stars, all under the inspired direction of Charles Walters. Fred plays a playboy who sings (I Wanna Be a ..read more »
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Royal Wedding
on DVD
(1951)
Starring: Peter Lawford, Keenan Wynn, Sara Churchill
Director: Stanley Donen
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Fred Astaire and Jane Powell star as Tom and Ellen Bowen, a brother and sister vaudeville team who take their act to London during the run-up to the wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Phillip Mountbatten. Of course, with the sound of wedding bells in the air, it's not long before Tom and Ellen find ..read more »
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The Barkleys Of Broadway
on DVD
(1949)
Starring: Ginger Rogers, Fred Astaire
Director: Charles Walters
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Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers play a showbiz couple who are always bickering - but true love prevails. This film was their first together for ten years. The songs, by Harry Warren and Ira Gershwin, include `They Can't Take That Away From Me' and `You'd Be Hard To Replace'. Judy Garland was the ..read more »
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Easter Parade - Blu-ray
(1948)
Starring: Judy Garland, Fred Astaire, Ann Miller
Director: Charles Walters
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Fred Astaire came out of retirement to star in this musical, playing one half of a dance team who is ditched by his partner. Deciding he can make a star out of anyone he wants, he chooses a lowly chorus girl (Judy Garland) as his new partner. Songs include `A Couple of Swells', `Stepping Out With ..read more »
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Easter Parade
on DVD
(1948)
Starring: Judy Garland, Fred Astaire, Ann Miller
Director: Charles Walters
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Fred Astaire had announced his retirement before the cameras began to roll on Easter Parade, but he decided to accept the film's leading role when its original star Gene Kelly became incapacitated. The thinnish plot, which finds Astaire trying to turn chorus girl Judy Garland into a star in order ..read more »
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The Sky's The Limit
on DVD
(1943)
Starring: Joan Leslie, Fred Astaire
Director: Edward Griffith
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Former Flying Tiger squadron pilots Fred Atwell (Fred Astaire) and Reg Fenton (Robert Ryan) are about to head off for new jobs flying bombers in Australia. They stop off for a holiday in New York, heading for a top nightclub. Fred meets beautiful photographer Jean (Joan Leslie) at the club, but at ..read more »
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Holiday Inn
on DVD
(1942)
Starring: Marjorie Reynolds, Walter Abel, Fred Astaire
Director: Mark Sandrich
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Jim Hardy (Bing Crosby) and Ted Hanover (Fred Astaire) are a successful song and dance double act until Jim decides to retire and become a gentleman farmer following Ted's seduction of his girlfriend. Jim fails as a farmer, but decides to convert his property to an inn that is only open on public ..read more »
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You Were Never Lovelier
on DVD
(1942)
Starring: Rita Hayworth, Adolphe Menjou, Adele Mara
Director: William A. Seiter
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Maria Acuna (Rita Hayworth) is the daughter of hotelier Edwardo (Adolphe Menjou), who wishes her to marry poste haste. Maria believes that no man can match her high standards, so Edwardo invents a phoney Romeo, sending his daughter flowers and love notes. When penniless American dancer Robert Davis ..read more »
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Broadway Melody of 1940
on DVD
(1940)
Starring: Fred Astaire
Director: Norman Taurog
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Johnny Brett and King Shaw are an unsuccessful dance team in New York. A producer discovers Brett as the new partner for Clare Bennett, but Brett, who thinks he is one of the people they lent money to gives him the name of his partner.
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Fred Astaire - Second Chorus
(1940)
Starring: Charles Butterworth, Artie Shaw, Fred Astaire
Director: H.C. Potter
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Fred Astaire performs alongside Paulette Goddard in this 1940 musical romantic comedy. The rivalry between two trumpet players escalates when they find themselves competing for affections of the same beautiful girl. Artie Shaw and his Band provide the classic jazz soundtrack and play themselves in ..read more »
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The Story Of Vernon And Irene Castle
(1939)
Starring: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Janet Beecher
Director: H. C Potter
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Who else but the fabulous Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, the greatest dancing team of all time, could portray Vernon & Irene Castle, the renowned ballroom dancers of the years preceding World War I? Fred and Ginger dance up a storm as they dramatize the careers of the Castles. The pair first unite ..read more »
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Carefree
(1938)
Starring: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Ralph Bellamy
Director: Mark Sandrich
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Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers team up in the story of a psychiatrist who falls in love with one of his patients. A light musical with lyrics from Irving Berlin such as 'Change Partners' and 'I Used To Be Colour Blind'.
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Shall We Dance
(1937)
Starring: Ginger Rogers, Fred Astaire
Director: Mark Sandrich
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The seventh of RKO's Fred Astaire--Ginger Rogers musicals, Shall We Dance casts Astaire as a world-renowned ballet dancer and Rogers as a musical comedy headliner. Rogers' manager Jerome Cowan concocts a phony romance between his client and Astaire in order to garner publicity for them both. ..read more »
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Follow the Fleet
(1936)
Starring: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Betty Grable
Director: Mark Sandrich
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This Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers vehicle sees Astaire plays Bake Baker, a new recruit in the Navy who comes to the rescue of sisters, Sherry (Rogers) and Harriet Hillard (Connie Martin). Lucille Ball, Betty Grable and Tony Martin appear in minor roles, while the lyrics are supplied by Irving ..read more »
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Top Hat
(1935)
Starring: Ginger Rogers, Edward Everett Horton, Eric Rhodes
Director: Mark Sandrich
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One of the best of the Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers musicals, Top Hat centers on a typical mistaken-identity plot, with wealthy Dale Tremont (Rogers), on holiday in London and Venice, assuming that American entertainer Jerry Travers (Astaire) is the husband of her friend Madge (Helen Broderick) -- ..read more »
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Swing Time
(1935)
Starring: Victor Moore, Ginger Rogers, Betty Furness
Director: George Stevens
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The sixth of RKO's Fred Astaire -Ginger Rogers pairings of the 1930s, Swing Time starts off with bandleader Astaire getting cold feet on his wedding day. Astaire's bride-to-be Betty Furness will give him a second chance, providing he proves himself responsible enough to earn $25,000. Astaire ..read more »
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Roberta
on DVD
(1935)
Starring: Ginger Rogers, Randolph Scott, Helen Westley
Director: William A. Seiter
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Classic musical starring Irene Dunne, Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. When Huck Haines (Astaire) travels to Paris with his friend John (Randolph Scott) to perform a gig at a local club, he is disappointed when the proprietor refuses to honour the engagement after meeting the band. John turns to his ..read more »
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The Gay Divorcee
(1934)
Starring: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Eric Blore
Director: Mark Sandrich
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Mimi Glossop wants a divorce so her Aunt Hortense hires a professional to play the correspondent in apparent infidelity. American dancer Guy Holden meets Mimi while visiting Brightbourne (Brighton) and she thinks he is the correspondent
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Flying Down to Rio
(1933)
Starring: Ginger Rogers, Fred Astaire, Dolores Del Rio
Director: Thornton Freeland
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Aviator and band leader Roger Bond is forever getting his group fired for flirting with the lady guests. When he falls for Brazilian beauty Belinha de Rezende it appears to be for real, even though she is already engaged. His Yankee Clippers band is hired to open the new Hotel Atlantico in Rio and ..read more »
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Fred And Ginger
(8 discs)
Starring: Ginger Rogers, Fred Astaire
Director: Mark Sandrich
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Collection of eight classic Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers films. In 'Top Hat' (1935), Jerry Travers (Astaire) receives an inexplicably haughty response from Dale Tremont (Rogers) when he attempts to woo her, but that's because she has mistaken him for her friend's husband. Love's eventual triumph ..read more »
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