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The Kelly Astaire Paradigm

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2008-02-15 00:05:00 by Jonathan Lapper in Cinema Styles
...Astaire? Well, recently with the passing of Roy Scheider there have been multiple tributes from various bloggers and commenters and almost all saying the same thing: Scheider was a great understated actor, an actor who embodied a role but never made it showy. In a post at the Siren's place , there was a discussion/comparison of Roy Scheider...
 
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The Dance Movie Blogathon: Remembering Fred Astaire

2008-05-10 18:24:24 by Gautam in Broken Projector
 
...Astaires 109th birthday Before I became acquainted with Astaire, I was introduced to the ever-charming Gene Kelly. My mum is a big fan of Gene and Grace Kelly and she never missed any of their films that were shown on TNT (Turner Nightime Television, now renamed to TCM: Turner Classic Movies). We watched An American in Paris (1951) and...
 
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Top Hat (1935)

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2008-01-17 18:50:37 by admin in FilmFanatic.org
...Astaire) in London to perform a show, and staying with his wealthy friend Horace (Edward Everett Horton) finds himself falling head-over-heels in love with a beautiful young model (Ginger Rogers) living in the room below his. Complications ensue when Rogers mistakenly believes Astaire is Horace, the husband of her best friend Madge (Helen...
 
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Funny Face: Centennial Collection (Stanley Donen, 1957)

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2008-12-31 04:37:00 by Yunda Eddie Feng in HD DVD Reviews
...Astaire! Funny Face functions as an advertisement for Hepburns style (and Givenchys fashion designs). The film also proves that Astaire didnt lose his touch as the years went by. As an Audrey Hepburn fan, I couldnt resist the delicious eye candy and star power that Funny Face offers In the movie, Maggie Prescott (Kay Thompson), editor of...
 
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Youll Never Get Rich (1941)

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2008-01-16 00:56:09 by admin in FilmFanatic.org
...Astaire) helps his philandering boss (Robert Benchley) get out of hot water with his suspicious wife (Frieda Inescort) by pretending to have purchased an engraved diamond bracelet for one of his beautiful showgirls (Rita Hayworth). He soons finds himself in trouble with Hayworths beau (John Hubbard), and enlists in the army to escape;...
 
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Is this a dance which I see before me? Or, Dance as Soliloquy

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2008-05-12 08:36:00 by Campaspe in Self-Styled Siren
...Astaire and Ginger Rogers, with dance as courtship and, when she was old enough to get the idea, with dance as consummation Astaire and Rogers did this brilliantly but they were far from the only ones. Over at Raymond de Felitta's place you will find him posting a Cyd Charisse number with James Mitchell (later to be Palmer Cortlandt on...
 
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Swing Time (1936)

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2008-01-19 00:48:46 by admin in FilmFanatic.org
...Astaire) is challenged by his future father-in-law (Landers Stevens) to earn $25,000 before marrying his daughter (Betty Furness), and heads to New York with his trusty sidekick, Pop (Victor Moore) to earn the funds. Once he arrives, however he falls immediately in love with a young dance instructor (Ginger Rogers), and tries his best not to...
 
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Framing the Picture

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2008-06-02 11:00:00 by Jonathan Lapper in Cinema Styles
...Astaire. The second cut from O'Toole to Astaire is more obvious: O'Toole does a laughable twirl in the air and Astaire does a masterful twirl with the coatrack. Both O'Toole frames connect to the Kelly/Astaire frame after them, but I suspected only the Astaire one would be noticed. If anyone did notice the Kelly connection before this let me...
 
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Dancing in Tight Spaces

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2008-05-03 21:03:24 by Editor in Ferdy on Films, etc.
...Astaire Set in 1947, Royal Wedding has a brother and sister team (Astaire and Jane Powell) crossing the Atlantic to open their recently closed Broadway show in London the year of the wedding of Queen Elizabeth II to Philip. Naturally, both siblings find their true loves in the process. In one of the most famous scenes in all the movies, Fred...
 
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Invitation to the Dance Movie Blogathon 2008

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2008-05-04 07:16:05 by Editor in Ferdy on Films, etc.
...Astaire! Adele, that is . Jonathan Lapper at Cinema St yles produces a photo of the more famous Astaire and his earliest dance partner--his sister--and tells us a little about where she got off to while Fred was becoming a star. Richard Harland Smith over at TCM's MovieMorlocks.com has contributed one of the best ballroom scenes in filmdom...
 
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