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2006
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Fred Astaire guest stars as Chameleon, an intergalactic con artist on the run from the Boralean's Nomen henchmen. Hoping to...
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1979
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As co-hosted by Gene Kelly and Kathryn Crosby (the wife of Bing Crosby), this exclusive video compilation presents priceless...
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1979
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1958
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A Family Upside Down stars Fred Astaire and Helen Hayes as a retired married couple. Always proud of his independence and...
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1978
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Practically the whole Pickford clan showed up in Fanchon the Cricket. Mary Pickford plays the granddaughter of a woman...
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1915
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A dance instruction series from the Fred Astaire Studios, with instructors Lee and Peggy Santos. ~ Rovi...
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1989
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Originally produced for the late-night TV anthology ABC Wide World of Entertainment, this fascinating documentary guides the...
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1974
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This hour-long documentary is culled from the mid-1970s TV series That's Hollywood. As one can gather by the title, this is a...
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1984
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1970
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This musical documentary depicts Berlin's legacy of patriotic tunes. Film clips and interviews with the stars that sang the...
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1986
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1968
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1969
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Made for TV, The Man in the Santa Claus Suit jumped the gun a bit by premiering December 23, 1979. The title "character" is...
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1979
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1989
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Sony Wonder invites you to sing along with 11 songs from some of the most classic animated holiday programs of all time. The...
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1968
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The Over the Hill Gang Rides Again is a TV-movie sequel to 1969's ratings-grabbing The Over the Hill Gang, which told of a...
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1970
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1964
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Afro-Cuban music throughout the world is profiled in this video tracing its path from African and Spain into the Caribbean,...
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1990
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Space Prison consists of two tenuously linked 60-minute episodes of the TV series Battlestar Gallactica. Heavily influenced...
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1978
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This installment of Swing Era features music by Artie Shaw & His Orchestra, The Tommy & Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra, and many...
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2003
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1985
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You'll Never Get Rich was the first of two films made by Fred Astaire at Columbia, and also the first in which he was paired...
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Bob Curtis
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1941
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A lesser Fred Astaire effort, Belle of New York is set during the turn of the century. Astaire plays a footloose and...
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Charlie Hill
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1952
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Choreography, Tony Flagg
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1938
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This last remake (thus far) of the Jean Webster novel Daddy Long Legs was extensively revised to accommodate the talents of...
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Choreography, Jervis Pendleton III
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1955
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Fred Astaire's first RKO musical without his longtime partner Ginger Rogers is one of his best from any period -- even though...
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Choreography, Jerry Halliday
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1937
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Fred Astaire had announced his retirement before the cameras began to roll on Easter Parade, but he decided to accept the...
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Choreography, Don Hewes
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1948
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This lesser Astaire/Rogers vehicle is one of several screen versions of the venerable Hubert Osborne stage play Shore Leave....
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Choreography, Bake Baker
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1936
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This filmed version of the 1927 George Gershwin Broadway musical Funny Face utilizes the play's original star, Fred Astaire,...
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Choreography, Dick Avery
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1957
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Choreography, Guy Holden
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1934
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Choreography, Biddeford Pogo Poole
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1961
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Choreography, Huck Haines
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1935
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Choreography, Fred Atwell/Fred Burton
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1943
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MGM's Three Little Words is a "twin" musical biopic, covering the lives and careers of songwriters Bert Kalmar and...
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Choreography, Bert Kalmar
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1950
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Choreography, Jerry Travers
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1935
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The second and last of the Fred Astaire-Rita Hayworth vehicles, You Were Never Lovelier takes place in Argentina (courtesy of...
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Choreography, Robert Davis
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1942
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This represents MGM's 1976 sequel to its enormously successful compilation film That's Entertainment (1974). In lieu of the...
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Co-narrator
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1976
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A circus goes to the dogs (or, more accurately, the dogs come to the circus) in this light-hearted action-adventure tale....
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Daniel Hughes
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1976
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Though not the best of the Fred Astaire musicals, Second Chorus is the most easily accessible thanks to its current...
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Danny O'Neill
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1940
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Donald Elwood
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1950
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Nearly 20 years after it opened on Broadway, the E.Y. Harburg/Fred Saidy musical Finian's Rainbow was committed to film. Set...
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Finian McLonergan
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1968
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This uneven farce by director Richard Quine has its hilarious and witty moments as American diplomat William Gridley...
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Franklyn Ambruster
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1962
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The presence of William Powell as legendary showman Flo Ziegfeld at the beginning of Ziegfeld Follies might lead an...
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Fred Astaire/Raffles/Tai Long
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1946
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Fred Ayres
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1933
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A skyscraper and an all-star cast go up in flames in Irwin Allen's classic disaster movie. To celebrate the construction of...
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Harlee Claiborne
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1974
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Virtually everybody except President Roosevelt was in the lavish MGM backstage musical Dancing Lady. Joan Crawford stars as...
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Himself
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1933
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The man who assembled the remarkable documentary George Stevens: A Filmaker's Journey had the benefit of knowing the subject...
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Himself
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1984
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Host
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1961
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Host
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1961
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Host
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1962
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Jed Potter (Fred Astaire) is a popular radio personality who was once a famous dancer. He also used to be friends with Johnny...
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Jed Potter
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1946
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The sixth of RKO's Fred Astaire -Ginger Rogers pairings of the 1930s, Swing Time starts off with bandleader Astaire getting...
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John "Lucky" Garnett
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1936
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The Barkleys of Broadway became Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers' "reunion" picture purely by accident. Originally conceived as...
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John Barkley
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1949
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A disgruntled British secret service officer and an aspiring author turn to crime when they are again passed over for...
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John Pedley
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1969
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MGM's third follow-up to its landmark Broadway Melody is short on story, but that's okay, since the plot is merely a...
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Johnny Brett
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1940
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Yolanda and the Thief has long been considered the nadir of Arthur Freed's years as an MGM musical producer. Unappreciated at...
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Johnny Parkson Riggs
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1945
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Although there'd been "doomsday dramas" before it, Stanley Kramer's On the Beach was considered the first "important" entry...
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Julian Osborn
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1959
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An animated Fred Astaire stars in this animated holiday story, which offers a fanciful story of how the Easter Bunny came to...
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Mailman
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1977
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The story of how Santa Claus came to be is brought to life through the magic of stop-motion animation in this...
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Mailman
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1970
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It's ironic that MGM, in such dire financial straits in 1974 that it was selling its fabled back lot and auctioning off...
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Narrator
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1974
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The seventh of RKO's Fred Astaire--Ginger Rogers musicals, Shall We Dance casts Astaire as a world-renowned ballet dancer and...
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Petrov (Peter P. Peters)
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1937
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This 1981 John Irvin picture constitutes an adaptation of Peter Straub's colossal, bestselling novel. The central plot --...
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Ricky Hawthorne
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1981
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An ambitious musical adaptation of Michel Déon's best-selling novel, Un Taxi Mauve is set in Ireland during a time in which...
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Scully
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1977
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Steve Canfield
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1957
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Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire star in Holiday Inn as a popular nightclub song-and-dance team. When his heart is broken by his...
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Ted Hanover
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1942
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Two real-life events were incorporated into the plot of the 1951 MGM musical Royal Wedding. One, the marriage of...
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Tom Bowen
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1951
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One of the most subtle and sophisticated of the musical comedies that came out of MGM's Arthur Freed Unit in the '40s and...
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Tony Hunter
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1953
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Vernon Castle
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1939
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