Thank you for the link to this wonderful article. The writer seems to "get" Mr. Astaire and his fans' devotion to him. And I'm glad to learn I wasn't the only...
The author, Paula Marantz Cohen, was also a presenter; her talk was about FA's use of the "interior landscape", in comparison with Doug Fairbanks, Sr. and...
Dear Chris et All, Just finished watching "Belle of New York" rented from Netflix and then found your kind responses. At least I know I wasn't holding false...
Hi Linda, Apologies for not replying sooner to your question. Here's what I had to say about Fred's magnetism and sex appeal. I argued that his was "a...
Great writeup, but it's from the Times Literary Supplement, published in London--not the New York Times. Mike [Non-text portions of this message have been...
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If you'd like to see some photos from the Astaire Conference at Oxford, they are now available at http://www.faconference.org/ Thanks again for all the kind...
The write-up mentions "a rare clip of Astaire dancing on stage in The Gay Divorce (permitting comparison with the same number in the subsequent movie with...
Orville Spooner wrote the below. That can't be this bum's real name. (Hi, Rich.) Reminds me of Mrs. Schmidlap. Well, you can call until the cows come home, but...
Oh, thank you for posting the link to the conference home page. Patcat I need to use one of my most important investigative tools--my library card. Det. Robert...
Thanks for the correction Mike! That was a goof on my part and I have deleted the message. (The message was to "Google News" - "Fred Astaire" and the first...
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... The differences that struck me (and which we discussed in the panel) were between Dorothy Stone and Ginger Rogers' performances. I felt that Ginger's...
The high kicks notwithstanding, I was actually struck by how much of the choreography from the stage dance was retained in the film version.?Much of it ws...
I'd say the other biggest difference was that the dance continued after the cigarette moment... Fred deposited Dorothy, made the offer of a smoke, they talked...
As a new member, I fear I'm not yet very well acclimated to the workings of the Board and how to find previously coverered topics. I seem to recall somebody...
I agree that it is not the finest in the Astaire movie series (REALLY STUPID plot), but it has an unusually large number of very cute dances, and Vera-Allen is...
Thanks so much, Neal. It's so nice to hear something new (at least for me) about the music that so motivated FA to dance, sing, play and compose. I think that...
Oh, I agree. There are so many dances that are cute, charming. Like the Currier and Ives numbers and Baby Doll. Always worth watching if just for the dancing. ...
I'm sure I noticed somewhere in the clip, too, the bit used in "I've Got My Eyes On You" (Broadway Melody 1940) where Fred tosses Claire's powderpuff onto an...
Hi Kathy, Â Thank you so much for all that information - no wonder I didn't manage to scribble it all down! If only I could do shorthand... Â That's a...
Thanks so much for the photos. I must say that Kathleen's introduction brought me to tears (of both joy and sadness). I can't wait to see the transcrips (or...
Back in the 1980's glory days here in Los Angeles when there were several revival houses showing films in 35mm, and during a given year you could go to see on...
Todd Decker talked about this at length in his presentation, and played Fred's tap solo from "Candy" and then Hamp's drum solo from "Jack". They are very...
Yes--in the show, Guy and Mimi had met before the action commences, and been besotted with each other, but then she disappeared from his life, not wanting to...
This was great fun to watch. During another appearance he made on the programme, Fred was again taken sternly to task for denying he was a singer. I love...
I suppose somebody already mentionned that... but I was reading Gershwin biography by David Ewen and found that sentence "what love has done to me " shifts...
