Who is Fred Astaire?
Fred Astaire (1899-1987) was a dancer and performer, best remembered for his musical performances with Ginger Rogers during the 1930s. However, Fred Astaire was in a dazzling amount of films and plays, contributing a huge body of work to cinema history. Fred Astaire was a superb dancer and choreographer, as well as a perfectionist, constantly questing for improved dance moves and films with a focus on beautiful, showy performance. Fred Astaire also appeared in numerous television specials in his later years and was honored by the Academy in 1950 for his significant contribution to Hollywood history. Fred Astaire was the son of Austrian immigrants to New York City, and he spent his childhood going to dancing school with his older sister Adele, who was a talented dancer herself. The two performed on various stages in childhood, adopting the name Astaire during the First World War and making it a household word along the Eastern Seaboard. The Astaires danced in numerous Broadway productio
