With
Astaire and Rogers famed for their dancing, Trinity Players are working tirelessly to create dance routines that live up to their predecessors.
Holiday Inn centres on popular musical performers Jim Hardy (Crosby) and Ted Hanover (
Astaire) reuniting after personal differences as Jim's new venue that opens on US public holidays - Holiday Inn.
US-born
Astaire, above, and his equally talented sister Adele were frequent visitors to London and mixed with royalty and nobility as well as making their first recording while visiting in 1923.
Astaire and Rogers were not a team in their first film, "Flying Down to Rio" (1933).
Her most memorable moment in the film "The Band Wagon" came in the song "Triplets" in which she,
Astaire and co-star Jack Buchanan were clad in baby clothes, including big white bonnets, and sat in three high chairs in front of a cartoonish backdrop.
He was one of the first snappers invited into stars' homes capturing, among others,
Astaire playing pool.
We would never compare ourselves to Fred
Astaire and Ginger Rogers, but it's going to be our homage them.
The Band Wagon, with Fred
Astaire and Cyd Charisse, influenced me.
Barclays Plc (LSE: BARC) has announced that it has promoted Mark
Astaire as chairman of corporate broking.
For most, any mention of Fred
Astaire conjures up image of an impressive dancer who happened to sing popular songs on occasion.
To keep the girl he loves away from his rival, the singer (Bing Crosby) suggests that the dancer (Fred
Astaire) might try going it alone for once: "I think you're better off doing a single; you're a born soloist, you know!" In spite of his recent jilting by the third member of their former act,
Astaire quickly rejects that advice: "I've got to have a partner!"
The prize possession of Mrs Gladys Coffeegrinder, 53, of Albuquerque, New Mexico, is an umbrella which she maintains does not look much like the late Mr Fred
Astaire. "I first noticed this a couple of years ago, when putting the rolled-up umbrella into my umbrella stand and I said to my husband, 'Just look at that!
British investment banking firm
Astaire Group (LON:ASTR) said Tuesday it has concluded the sale of Rowan Dartington & Co (RD), a Bristol-based client wealth management and stockbroking business, to a private investor consortium led by Graham Coxell.
Global Banking News-October 18, 2010--Canada's Northland Capital acquires
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