Style, Grace, Elegance, Astaire; The Poet of Motion Who Stepped Out to Immortality

From: The Washington Post | Date: June 23, 1987| Author: | Copyright information

To have walked on the moon, that would be nice, but to be able to dance like Fred Astaire, that would be heaven.

Everyone knew that, being mortal, Fred Astaire would die some day, and yesterday in Los Angeles, at the age of 88, he did. But so often on the movie screen, Fred Astaire had seemed better than mortal; he improved on perfection. One hoped that maybe he would defy the laws of nature in real life as he had bent and evaded them so often in the movies.

Fred Astaire danced up the walls and across the ceiling in "Royal Wedding"; he danced on rooftops and ledges in "The Belle of New ...

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