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Five Fast Facts About Fred Astaire:
1) Fred Astaire was born in Omaha, Nebraska and was named Frederick Austerlitz.
2) At age 12, Astaire started performing with his sister, Adele, in a vaudeville act. Vaudeville was popular in the early twentieth century before movies and television and featured people singing and dancing on stage, usually doing something funny.
3) In 1931, after twenty years, Adele retired and Fred Astaire became a movie star, famous for being a "song and dance man".
4) Although he wasn't as handsome as some other actors at the time, Fred Astaire became a popular romantic lead man, especially when he was in movies with another great dancer, Ginger Rogers.
5) After 31 musical films and 76 years of singing and dancing, Fred Astaire died at the age of 88. At the time of his death, he thanked Michael Jackson for carrying on the legacy of singing and dancing.
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All the classes watched Fred Astaire dance with Gene Kelly in The Babbitt and the Bromide.
1) Fred Astaire was born in Omaha, Nebraska and was named Frederick Austerlitz.
2) At age 12, Astaire started performing with his sister, Adele, in a vaudeville act. Vaudeville was popular in the early twentieth century before movies and television and featured people singing and dancing on stage, usually doing something funny.
3) In 1931, after twenty years, Adele retired and Fred Astaire became a movie star, famous for being a "song and dance man".
4) Although he wasn't as handsome as some other actors at the time, Fred Astaire became a popular romantic lead man, especially when he was in movies with another great dancer, Ginger Rogers.
5) After 31 musical films and 76 years of singing and dancing, Fred Astaire died at the age of 88. At the time of his death, he thanked Michael Jackson for carrying on the legacy of singing and dancing.
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All the classes watched Fred Astaire dance with Gene Kelly in The Babbitt and the Bromide.