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The Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers Book
Author | : Arlene Croce |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 191 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Dance in motion pictures, television, etc |
ISBN | : 9781934849323 |
A Dance with Fred Astaire
Author | : Jonas Mekas |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 464 |
Release | : 2017-10-03 |
Genre | : Collectibles |
ISBN | : 9781944860097 |
A Dance with Fred Astaire covers the 94 years Mekas has spent weaving himself inextricably into the fabric of postwar culture, featuring a dizzying cast of cultural icons both underground and mainstream.
Fred Astaire
Author | : Benny Green |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
Fred Astaire
Author | : Sarah Giles |
Publisher | : Doubleday Books |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
The Hollywood actor and dancer comes to life in the words of the people who knew him best, his family, friends, and peers.
Redlined
Author | : Linda Gartz |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 367 |
Release | : 2018-04-03 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 163152321X |
Set against the backdrop of the Civil Rights Movement, Redlined exposes the racist lending rules that refuse mortgages to anyone in areas with even one black resident. As blacks move deeper into Chicago’s West Side during the 1960s, whites flee by the thousands. But Linda Gartz’s parents, Fred and Lil choose to stay in their integrating neighborhood, overcoming previous prejudices as they meet and form friendships with their African American neighbors. The community sinks into increasing poverty and crime after two race riots destroy its once vibrant business district, but Fred and Lil continue to nurture their three apartment buildings and tenants for the next twenty years in a devastated landscape—even as their own relationship cracks and withers. After her parents’ deaths, Gartz discovers long-hidden letters, diaries, documents, and photos stashed in the attic of her former home. Determined to learn what forces shattered her parents’ marriage and undermined her community, she searches through the family archives and immerses herself in books on racial change in American neighborhoods. Told through the lens of Gartz’s discoveries of the personal and political, Redlined delivers a riveting story of a community fractured by racial turmoil, an unraveling and conflicted marriage, a daughter’s fight for sexual independence, and an up-close, intimate view of the racial and social upheavals of the 1960s.
The Astaires
Author | : Kathleen Riley |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 401 |
Release | : 2012-03-01 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 0199913072 |
This is the first book about the theatre career of Fred and Adele Astaire, detailing their years in vaudeville, on Broadway, and in London, their impact culturally, and the essence of their partnership on and off the stage.
Fred Astaire
Author | : Joseph Epstein |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 217 |
Release | : 2012-05-29 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0300173520 |
Joseph Epstein’s Fred Astaire investigates the great dancer’s magical talent, taking up the story of his life, his personality, his work habits, his modest pretensions, and above all his accomplishments. Written with the wit and grace the subject deserves, Fred Astaire provides a remarkable portrait of this extraordinary artist and how he came to embody for Americans a fantasy of easy elegance and, paradoxically, of democratic aristocracy.Tracing Astaire’s life from his birth in Omaha to his death in his late eighties in Hollywood, the book discusses his early days with his talented and outspoken sister Adele, his gifts as a singer (Irving Berlin, George Gershwin, and Jerome Kern all delighted in composing for Astaire), and his many movie dance partners, among them Cyd Charisse, Rita Hayworth, Eleanor Powell, and Betty Hutton. A key chapter of the book is devoted to Astaire’s somewhat unwilling partnership with Ginger Rogers, the woman with whom he danced most dazzlingly. What emerges from these pages is a fascinating view of an American era, seen through the accomplishments of Fred Astaire, an unassuming but uncompromising performer who transformed entertainment into art and gave America a new yet enduring standard for style.
Music Makes Me
Author | : Todd Decker |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 390 |
Release | : 2011-05-25 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0520268881 |
Fred Astaire is best known for his brilliant dancing in the movie musicals of the 1930s, but in Music Makes Me, Todd Decker argues that Astaire's work as a dancer and choreographer, particularly in the realm of tap dancing, made a significant contribution to the art of jazz.
Steps in Time
Author | : Fred Astaire |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 2008-08-05 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0061567566 |
One of the foremost entertainers of the twentieth century—singer, actor, choreographer, and, of course, the most dazzling "hoofer" in the history of motion pictures—Fred Astaire was the epitome of charm, grace, and suave sophistication, with a style all his own and a complete disregard for the laws of gravity. Steps in Time is Astaire's story in his own words, a memoir as beguiling, exuberant, and enthralling as the great artist himself, the man ballet legends George Balanchine and Rudolf Nureyev cited as, hands down, the century's greatest dancer. From his debut in vaudeville at age six through his remarkable career as the star of many of the most popular Hollywood musicals ever captured on celluloid, Steps in Time celebrates the golden age of entertainment and its royalty, as seen through the eyes of the era's affable and adored prince. Illustrated with more than forty rare photographs from the author's personal collection, here is Astaire in all his debonair glory—his life, his times, his movies, and, above all, his magical screen appearances and enduring friendship with the most beloved of all his dancing partners, Ginger Rogers.