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Author : Jonas Mekas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-03
Category : Collectibles
ISBN : 1944860096
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.
Author : John Franceschina
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2012-06-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780199754298
Armed with an eighth-grade education, an inexhaustible imagination, and an innate talent for dancing, Hermes Pan (1909-1990) was a boy from Tennessee who became the most prolific, popular, and memorable choreographer of the glory days of the Hollywood musical. While he may be most well-known for the Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers musicals which he choreographed at RKO film studios, he also created dances at Twentieth Century-Fox, M-G-M, Paramount, and later for television, winning both the Oscar and the Emmy for best choreography.In Hermes Pan: The Man Who Danced with Fred Astaire, Pan emerges as a man in full, an artist inseparable from his works. He was a choreographer deeply interested in his dancers' personalities, and his dances became his way of embracing and understanding the outside world. Though his time in a Trappist monastery proved to him that he was more suited to choreography than to life as a monk, Pan remained a deeply devout Roman Catholic throughout his creative life, a person firmly convinced of the powers of prayer. While he was rarely to be seen without several beautiful women at his side, it was no secret that Pan was homosexual and even had a life partner. As Pan worked at the nexus of the cinema industry's creative circles during the golden age of the film musical, this book traces not only Pan's personal life but also the history of the Hollywood musical itself. It is a study of Pan, who emerges here as a benevolent perfectionist, and equally of the stars, composers, and directors with whom he worked, from Astaire and Rogers to Betty Grable, Rita Hayworth, Elizabeth Taylor, Sammy Davis Jr., Frank Sinatra, Bob Fosse, George Gershwin, Samuel Goldwyn, and countless other luminaries of American popular entertainment.Author John Franceschina bases his telling of Pan's life on extensive first-hand research into Pan's unpublished correspondence and his own interviews. Pan enjoyed one of the most illustrious careers of any Hollywood dance director, and because his work also spanned across Broadway and television, this book will appeal to readers interested in musical theater history, dance history, and film.
Author : John E. Mueller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105040137312
Author : Kathleen Riley
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2012-03-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780199913077
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.
Author : Fred Astaire
Publisher : Cooper Square Publishers
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015048372992
Fred Astaire allows us to see through the effortless balletic exuberance.
Author : Joseph Epstein
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2012-05-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780300173529
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.
Author : Benny Green
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015059181431
Author : Stanley Green,Burt Goldblatt
Publisher : New York : Dodd, Mead
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105035406292
Author : Peter Levinson
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2015-07-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781250091499
Fred Astaire defined elegance on the dance floor. With white tie, tails and a succession of elegant partners - Ginger Rogers, Cyd Charisse, Rita Hayworth, Eleanor Powell, Judy Garland and others - he created an indelible image of the Anglo bon vivant. His origins, though, were far more humble: Born in Omaha, Nebraska, Fred Astaire came from Midwestern stock that partially had its origin in the late nineteenth century Jewish communities of Austria. At first, he played second fiddle in vaudeville to his sister, Adele; however, once he learned how to tap and bought his first Brooks Brothers suit, the game changed. How did he transform himself from a small town Nebraska boy into the most sophisticated man ever to dance across a dance floor? In this comprehensive new book about the life and artistry of Fred Astaire, Peter Levinson looks carefully at the entirety of Astaire's career from vaudeville to Broadway to Hollywood to television. He explores Astaire's relationships with his vivacious dance partners, his friendship with songwriters like George Gershwin and Irving Berlin and his relationship with choreographers like Hermes Pan to discover how Astaire, in effect, created his elegant persona. Astaire put his mark on the Hollywood musical, starting his career at RKO and then moving to MGM. From his long list of films, certain classics like "Swing Time", "Top Hat", "Royal Wedding" and "The Bandwagon" revolutionized the presentation of dance on film; but, he also revolutionized the television variety special with the Emmy-Award-Winning "An Evening With Fred Astaire". For 'Puttin' on the Ritz", veteran Hollywood insider, Peter Levinson interviewed over two hundred people who worked closely with Astaire such as Debbie Reynolds, Dick Van Dyke, Artie Shaw, Bobby Short, Oscar Peterson, Mel Ferrer, Betty Garrett, Joel Grey, Arlene Dahl, Michael Kidd, Betty Comden, Onna White, Margaret Whiting, Andy Williams, and others like Quincy Jones, John Travolta, and John Williams, to provide an intimate window on to his professional as well as his personal life. His new biography of Astaire is a celebration of the great era of sophistication on Broadway and in Hollywood as seen through the life of a man who learned how to put on the Ritz and become America's premiere song-and-dance-man: Fred Astaire.
Author : Fred Astaire Dance Studios
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Ballroom dancing
ISBN : NYPL:33433011367905
Author : Arlene Croce
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Dance in motion pictures, television, etc
ISBN : 1934849324
Author : Roxane Orgill
Publisher : Candlewick Press
Page : 43 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780763621216
Capturing the grace and beauty of the two biggest names in dance history, this fascinating glimpse into the lives of siblings Fred and Adele Astaire traces their extraordinary journey to success on Broadway and in Hollywood.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:670441631
A workaholic sign up for dance lessons.
Author : Lyle Kenyon Engel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Ballroom dancing
ISBN : NYPL:33433012377317
If you can walk, if you can count to four, you can become a good dancer in an amazingly short time. This book shows you how, quickly, easily, and without the help of a teacher. Step by step you are shown the fundamentals, how to do the basic steps of all the dances. Also, you are shown how to combine the different steps and make your own interesting variations. Finally, you are shown how to add that certain something called Astaire Styling that makes you a confident dancer and a popular dancing partner.
Author : Arlene Croce
Publisher : New York : Vintage Books
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105007514107