{"id":1082,"date":"2012-06-20T18:43:31","date_gmt":"2012-06-20T18:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dancemogul.com\/news\/?page_id=1082"},"modified":"2016-12-21T15:18:39","modified_gmt":"2016-12-21T15:18:39","slug":"fred-astaire","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.dancemogul.com\/news\/supporting-our-legacy\/fred-astaire\/","title":{"rendered":"FRED ASTAIRE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/dancemogul.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/fred.jpg\" rel=\"mfp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1083\" title=\"fred\" src=\"\/\/dancemogul.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/fred-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dancemogul.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/fred-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dancemogul.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/fred-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.dancemogul.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/fred.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.dancemogul.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/fred-900x675.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.dancemogul.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/fred-600x450.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fred_Astaire\"><strong>Fred Astaire<\/strong> <\/a>(born) <strong>Frederick Austerlitz<\/strong>; May 10, 1899\u00a0\u2013 June 22, 1987) was an American film and <a title=\"Broadway theatre\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Broadway_theatre\">Broadway<\/a> stage <a title=\"Dancer\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dancer\">dancer<\/a>, choreographer, singer and actor. His stage and subsequent film career spanned a total of 76 years, during which he made 31 <a title=\"Musical film\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Musical_film\">musical films<\/a>. He was named the fifth <a title=\"AFI's 100 Years... 100 Stars\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/AFI%27s_100_Years..._100_Stars\">Greatest Male Star of All Time<\/a> by the <a title=\"American Film Institute\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/American_Film_Institute\">American Film Institute<\/a>. He is particularly associated with <a title=\"Ginger Rogers\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ginger_Rogers\">Ginger Rogers<\/a>, with whom he made ten films.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Gene Kelly\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gene_Kelly\">Gene Kelly<\/a>, another major innovator in filmed dance, said that &#8220;the history of dance on film begins with Astaire&#8221;. Beyond film and television, many classical dancers and choreographers, <a title=\"Rudolf Nureyev\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rudolf_Nureyev\">Rudolf Nureyev<\/a>, <a title=\"Sammy Davis, Jr.\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sammy_Davis,_Jr.\">Sammy Davis, Jr.<\/a>, <a title=\"Michael Jackson\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Michael_Jackson\">Michael Jackson<\/a>, <a title=\"Gregory Hines\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gregory_Hines\">Gregory Hines<\/a>, <a title=\"Mikhail Baryshnikov\" href=\"https:\/\/www.artsy.net\/artist\/mikhail-baryshnikov\">Mikhail Baryshnikov<\/a>, <a title=\"George Balanchine\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Balanchine\">George Balanchine<\/a> and <a title=\"Jerome Robbins\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jerome_Robbins\">Jerome Robbins<\/a> among them, also acknowledged his importance and influence.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IFabjc6mFk4\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Y8n7WQIXQDs\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Fred Astaire (born) Frederick Austerlitz; May 10, 1899\u00a0\u2013 June 22, 1987) was an American film and Broadway stage dancer, choreographer, singer and actor. His stage and subsequent film career spanned a total of 76 years, during which he made 31 musical films. He was named the fifth Greatest Male Star of All Time by&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1083,"parent":287,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1082","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dancemogul.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dancemogul.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dancemogul.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dancemogul.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dancemogul.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dancemogul.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1082\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dancemogul.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/287"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dancemogul.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dancemogul.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}