- Description
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Fred Astaire Specials / Fred Astaire [television/video]
- Title
- Fred Astaire Specials [Television/Video]
- Performers
- Astaire, Fred
- Kelly, Gene
- Coles, Charles "Honi"
- Published/Created
- 1980-03-09
- Genre
- Television/Video
- Abstract
- Telecast on WNET-TV on March 9 and 10, 1980. Produced and directed by David Heeley. Written by John L. Miller. Narrated by Joanne Woodward.
Contents: Part 1 - Fred Astaire "Puttin' on his Top Hat." Traces Astaire's early career through vaudeville, musical comedy and films with Ginger Rogers. Musical numbers included are "Night and Day" and "The Continental" (The Gay Divorcee), "Top Hat, White Tie and Tails" and "Cheek to Cheek" (Top Hat), "Let's face the music and dance" (Follow the Fleet), "Bojangles of Harlem" and "Never Gonna Dance" (Swing Time), "Slap That Bass" (Shall We Dance), "Change Partners" (Carefree).
Part II - Fred Astaire: "Change Partners and Dance." Covers Astaire's later films and dancing partners. Includes interviews with Gene Kelly, Honi Coles and others. Musical numbers included are: "A-stairable Rag" (You'll Never Get Rich), "I'm Old Fashioned" (You Were Never Lovelier), "Let's Say It With Firecrackers" (Holiday Inn), "One For My Baby" (The Sky's the Limit), "Piano Dance" and "Oh, Them Dudes" (Let's Dance), "Something's Gotta Give" (Daddy Long Legs), "He Loves and She Loves" (Funny Face), "St. James Infirmary" ("An Evening with Fred Astaire" and "Oh, You Beautiful Doll" (The Fred Astaire Show). - Source
- New York Public Library: CATNYP: Dance Collection: Tap Dancing. New York Public Library for the Performing Arts Gregory Hines Collection of American Tap Dance ().
Last Updated: 12-16-2015