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This page is not intended to list all the pictures of Fred on the web, of which there are many- too many to list! Instead, this page is a list of all Fred images used on this website.

Portraits

Fred at around 11

What a happy ol' chap From Finian's Rainbow.

Publicity Photos

Young Fred with Adele. My favourite picture of the duo.

Vera-Ellen. From the underrated classic The Belle of New York.

Rita Hayworth. You can almost hear him singing to her. From You Were Never Lovelier.

On the radio for the Packard Hour, NBC.

Judy Garland, a publicity photo from Easter Parade

Sluefoot! with Leslie Caron

Gene Kelly, publicity photo for That's Entertainment! Part 2

Multiple Exposure Fred:

 
 

Magazines/Programs

Barrie Chase, on the TV Guide cover

An Academy Centennial Tribute to Fred Astaire held on Friday, May 14 1999 at 8:00 p.m. by The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the Academy Foundation at The Samuel Goldwyn Theater:

The Program- Cover Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Page 6

Fred Astaire: His Daughter's Tribute held on Sunday, 18 February 2001 by Ava Astaire McKenzie and Presented by Musical Stages at the London Palladium:

The Program (advertisements, cast biographies and sponsors omitted)-
Front Cover
Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 7 Page 8 Page 9 Page 10 Page 11 Page 12 Page 13 Page 14 Page 15 Page 16 Page 20 Page 21 Page 22 Page 24 Page 27 Back Cover

Other Photos

Fred at 5, from an early performance

The perfect couple: Fred and Phyllis.

Their Wedding Photo, with Henry Bull (Phyllis' uncle) and Justice Selah Strong.

Fred is happy at the AFI Award ceremony honouring him. A very rare show of such emotion from Fred!

Fred and George Stevens, Jr., posing with the AFI trophy.

Fred and his Emmys, with other recipients

Fred putting his feet in cement outside Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood (4 February 1938)

Richard Avedon and Fred during the filming of Funny Face, 1956

Edward Steichen's pictures of Fred from 1927:

 
 

More Steichen: Adele and Fred

Lee Miller: Astaire with Showgirls, 1944

The Economist, November 17th-23rd, 2001, Editorial cartoon.

Posters

Dancing LadyFlying Down To Rio
The Gay DivorceeRoberta
Top HatFollow The Fleet
Swing TimeShall We Dance [Another poster]
Damsel In DistressCarefree (Italian)
The Story of Vernon and Irene CastleThe Broadway Melody of 1940
Second Chorus (video cover)You'll Never Get Rich (French)
Holiday InnYou Were Never Lovelier
The Sky's The Limit [screen capture]Yolanda and the Thief
Ziegfeld Follies [Another poster]Blue Skies
Easter Parade [Another poster]The Barkleys of Broadway
Three Little WordsLet's Dance (video cover)
Royal WeddingThe Belle of New York
The Band WagonDaddy Long Legs
Funny FaceSilk Stockings
Finian's RainbowOn The Beach (Belgium)
The Pleasure of His CompanyThe Notorious Landlady
The Midas RunThat's Entertainment!
The Towering Inferno [Lobby Card]That's Entertainment! Part 2
The Amazing Dobermans (video cover)Un Taxi Mauve
Ghost Story 

Miscellaneous

Ginger Roger's gown from "Follow The Fleet".

The famous Ginger Rogers "backwards and in high heels" comic by Bob Thaves.

Zippy The Pinhead loves Fred Astaire. Two cartoon strips here vividly illustrate this love: Strip 1, 13 Jan 1986 Strip 2, 11 April 1999

Marmaduke, 29 July 2001

DVD screen captures from the Laureate Collection DVD of Royal Wedding. The captures are from a sequence describing how the famous 'Ceiling Dance' was created.

 
 
 

Dance instructors Vernon Cass and Leslie Pan demonstrate the Astaire, a dance based on the jitterbug, foxtrot, and Jersey bounce. Fred Astaire created the dance himself and taught it to 100 American dance instructors at his dance studio, which opened in New York in 1947. From Corbis.com

 
 
 
Last Updated on Tuesday, 10 November 2009 12:44