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Adrian Wootton Talks Hollywood Legends:
FRED ASTAIRE – Tapping from Top Hat to living colour
One of cinema’s greatest musical dance performers, Fred Astaire (1899–1987) broke into film in the 1930s and became a superstar when paired with Ginger Rogers for several hugely popular films, including Top Hat, The Gay Divorcee and Shall We Dance. But this was just part of Astaire’s extraordinarily successful and artistically innovative half-century career. Having switched from musical theatre to movies, he moved from RKO to MGM (with colour extravaganzas like Bandwagon), from black-and-white to colour, and then prolonged his career in the 1960s and 1970s with TV roles.
Wootton surveys the depth and breadth of the outstanding career of a performer who changed his dance partners seemingly at will but always ignited the screen with breathtaking artistry and grace.
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