An Evening with Fred Astaire is a one-hour live television special starring Fred Astaire, broadcast on NBC on October 17, 1958. It was highly successful, winning nine Emmy awards and spawning three further specials, and technically innovative, as it was the first major television show to be ...
(1936) often cited as the best of the lot. Although Astaire worked well with several leading ladies throughout his career, his partnership with Rogers had a special chemistry. Their respective elegance (Astaire) and earthiness (Rogers) rubbed off on one another, and it has often been said ...
…first performed with Astaire inFlying Down to Rio(1933), and their dance scenes—featuring an effortlessness and energy that became their trademarks—proved so popular that they continued the partnership in nine other films, notablyThe Gay Divorcee(1934),Top Hat(1935),Follow the Fleet(1936),...
Ginger Rogers, American dancer and actress who was best known as the partner of Fred Astaire in a series of movie musicals, including The Gay Divorcee (1934) and Top Hat (1935). She also won an Oscar for playing the title role in Kitty Foyle (1940) and l
Hermes Pan was a U.S. choreographer of dazzling motion picture dance sequences, especially in his work with Fred Astaire.