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Astaire

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Astaire
Fred, real name Frederick Austerlitz. 1899--1987, US dancer, singer, and actor, whose films include Top Hat (1935), Swing Time (1936), and The Band Wagon (1953)


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Duncan was cast in a show at the Las Palmas Theater in Hollywood, under the direction of choreographer Nick Castle, who did the movie ``Daddy Long Legs'' with Fred Astaire and Leslie Caron.
Images of top-hatted Astaire doppelgangers, horse-riders, and alpine scenes--more echoes of yetis--featuring dangling escape ladders cross-pollinate across carefully amateurish-looking drawings.
Fred Astaire wore beautiful clothes as well and wittily as any man in the twentieth century.
 
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