"He always refused permission for such portrayals, saying, ""However much they offer me—and offers come in all the time—I shall not sell."" Astaire's will included a clause requesting that no such portrayal ever take place; he commented, ""It is there because I have no particular desire to have my life misinterpreted, which it would be."" Fred Astaire Fred Astaire (born Frederick Austerlitz; May 10, 1899 – June 22, 1987) was an American dancer, singer, actor, choreographer and television presenter. He is widely regarded as the most influential dancer in the history of film. His stage and subsequent film and television"
"Storz House in Omaha includes the ""Adele and Fred Astaire Ballroom"" on the top floor, which is the only memorial to the siblings' roots in Omaha. Adele Astaire Adele, Lady Charles Cavendish (born Adele Marie Austerlitz; September 10, 1896 – January 25, 1981), was an American dancer, stage actress and singer. She was Fred Astaire's elder sister, and his partner in a 27-year career in vaudeville and theater, beginning when he was five and she was eight. Adele Marie Austerlitz was born on September 10, 1896, in Omaha, Nebraska. Her parents were Johanna ""Ann"" Geilus, an American-born Lutheran of German"
"Adele Astaire Adele, Lady Charles Cavendish (born Adele Marie Austerlitz; September 10, 1896 – January 25, 1981), was an American dancer, stage actress and singer. She was Fred Astaire's elder sister, and his partner in a 27-year career in vaudeville and theater, beginning when he was five and she was eight. Adele Marie Austerlitz was born on September 10, 1896, in Omaha, Nebraska. Her parents were Johanna ""Ann"" Geilus, an American-born Lutheran of German descent, and Frederic ""Fritz"" Austerlitz, an Austrian-born Roman Catholic of Jewish descent. Adele's younger brother, Fred, was born two years after her. When Adele was eight"
"Albert Lortzing Gustav Albert Lortzing (23 October 1801 – 21 January 1851) was a German composer, actor and singer. He is considered to be the main representative of the German ""Spieloper"", a form similar to the French ""opéra comique"", which grew out of the ""Singspiel"". Lortzing was born in Berlin to Johann Gottlieb and Charlotte Sophie Lortzing. They had abandoned their leather shop and travelled through Germany as itinerant actors, founding the Berlin theatre company ""Urania"", and turning their amateur passion into a profession. The young Lortzing's first stage appearance was at the age of 12, entertaining the audience with"
"Fritz Wunderlich Friedrich ""Fritz"" Karl Otto Wunderlich (26 September 1930 – 17 September 1966) was a German lyric tenor, famed for his singing of the Mozart repertory and various lieder. He died in an accident when he was only 35. Wunderlich was born in Kusel in the Palatinate, Germany. His mother was a violinist and his father was a choirmaster. For a short time, the family kept the inn ""Emrichs Bräustübl"" (Emrich's Brewing Cottage). Fritz's father lost his job due to pressure imposed upon him by local Nazis, in addition to suffering from a severe battlefield injury. He committed suicide"
"Gottlob Frick Gottlob Frick (28 July 1906 in Ölbronn-Dürrn – 18 August 1994 in Muhlacker) was a German bass who sang in opera. He was known for his wide repertory including Wagner and Mozart roles, as well as those of Nicolai and Lortzing. Frick's teachers included Fritz Windgassen (father and teacher of Frick’s contemporary, the tenor Wolfgang Windgassen). He was a member of the chorus at the Stuttgart State Opera from 1927 to 1934. His first solo role was in Coburg in 1934–35, followed by Freiburg (1936–40) and Königsberg (1938) where Karl Böhm discovered him and engaged him for the"
"composed a number of small, clever pieces, including ""The Spinning Song"". Albert Ellmenreich Albert Ellmenreich was a German actor, writer, singer and composer. He was born on 10 February 1816 in Karlsruhe, Germany, and died on 30 May 1905 in Lübeck. Ellmenreich was the son of Johann Ellmenreich and his wife Friederike. He grew up in the cities of Hamburg (1817), Mannheim (1820) and Frankfurt (1821). In Frankfurt, Ellmenreich finished school and joined the Frankfurt Theatre's choir (1833). In 1834, he found work in Altenburg. Appearances in Nürnberg (1834), Düsseldorf (1835) and Schwerin (1836) followed. In Schwerin his mother lived"
"Franz Ferenczy Franz Ferenczy (also Franz Friedemann) (1835 – 27 February 1881, Weimar) was a nineteenth-century German tenor who had a prolific opera career in Europe between 1859-1880. Possessing a powerful voice with a wide vocal range, Ferenczy particularly excelled in the operas of Giacomo Meyerbeer and Richard Wagner. He is best remembered today for originating the role of Samson in the world premiere of Camille Saint-Saëns's ""Samson et Dalila"" in 1877. His brother, José Ferenczy (1852–1908), was also a successful operatic tenor. Born Franz Friedemann, Ferenczy studied singing at the Milan Conservatory under renowned teacher Francesco Lamperti from 1853-1854."
"Oskar Karlweis Oskar Karlweis (10 July 1894, Hinterbrühl – 24 January 1956, New York City) was an Austrian stage and film actor, active internationally. Son of a playwright, Karlweis abandoned his youthful law studies for the stage, first for eight years at Vienna's Stadttheater. After service in World War I, he was active with Max Reinhardt's Theater in der Josefstadt in Vienna, followed by engagements at various theaters in Munich and Vienna, and then to the Berlin stage where he had a popular following playing singing and dancing roles, including as Prinz Orlofsky in ""Die Fledermaus"". His general manner was"
"Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers Fred Astaire (May 10, 1899 – June 22, 1987) and Ginger Rogers (July 16, 1911 – April 25, 1995) were iconic dance partners who made motion pictures together from 1933 to 1949. They made a total of 10 films, nine of them with RKO Radio Pictures from 1933 to 1939, and one, ""The Barkleys of Broadway"", with M-G-M in 1949, their only color (Technicolor) film. Many years later, they became known by the portmanteau nickname of ""Fringer"", popularised by Australian entertainer Dave Gorr. Astaire started dancing in the early 1900s as a child on stage"
"many famous dancers of the 19th century including August Bournonville, Marius Petipa, Lucien Petipa, Fanny Elssler, Jules Perrot and Marie Taglioni. It was with Taglioni in 1835 that he performed a minuet at the age of 75. Auguste Vestris is not to be confused with his son, Armand Vestris, who married the English actress-manager Lucia Elizabeth Vestris in 1813. Both Armand and a cousin Charles Vestris, son of a brother of Auguste's, were also dancers. Auguste Vestris Marie-Jean-Augustin Vestris, known as Auguste Vestris (27 March 1760 – 5 December 1842), was a French dancer. He was born in Paris as"
"was on a hunting vacation. He fell from a stairway in a friend's country house in Oberderdingen near Maulbronn due to carelessly tied shoes, and died in the University Clinic of Heidelberg just days before his 36th birthday. He was a few weeks away from his Metropolitan Opera debut in New York City as Don Ottavio in Mozart's ""Don Giovanni"". Wunderlich is buried in Munich's Waldfriedhof cemetery. Fritz Wunderlich Friedrich ""Fritz"" Karl Otto Wunderlich (26 September 1930 – 17 September 1966) was a German lyric tenor, famed for his singing of the Mozart repertory and various lieder. He died in"
"Greta Keller Margaretha ""Greta"" Keller (February 8, 1903 – November 11, 1977) was a cabaret singer and actress. Born Margaretha Keller in Vienna, Austria, she studied dance from the age of eight, followed by acting. Her début was in ""Pavillon,"" in Vienna. She also appeared on stage with Marlene Dietrich in ""Broadway,"" in which she sang and danced. A recording contract with Ultraphon in 1929 took her from Vienna to Prague and Berlin, where she enjoyed great success with Peter Igelhoff and Peter Kreuder. For over 45 years her voice was familiar worldwide, in radio shows, films, revues, concerts and"
"Francis Lederer Francis Lederer (November 6, 1899 – May 25, 2000) was an Austrian-born film and stage actor with a successful career, first in Europe, then in the United States. His original name was František Lederer and in the early years of his career he performed under the stage-name Franz Lederer. Lederer started acting when he was young, and was trained at the Academy of Music and Academy of Dramatic Art in Prague. After service in the Austrian-Hungarian Imperial Army in World War I, he made his stage debut as an apprentice with the New German Theater, a walk-on in"
"Lisl Frank Lisl Frank (22 January 1911 – October 4, 1944) achieved success as a singer, dancer and actress before World War II. Born Alice Frankl in Prague, she met her future husband, Otto Aufrichtig (stage name Otto Aurich) in 1933 when he took over as director of the Neues Stadttheater in Teplitz-Schonau [Teplice] where she was appearing as a singer, dancer and actress. Their Teplice stage partnership proved to be a winning combination and after marrying in Czechoslovakia, she and Otto moved to his home city of Vienna. With the Nazis rise to power, they curtailed their own success"
"and in Heinrich Sutermeister's ""Le roi Béranger"" in 1985, both in Munich. A forthright singer with a fine voice, he is best known for his recording of ""Tristan und Isolde"", opposite Birgit Nilsson, under Sir Georg Solti. Fritz Uhl Fritz Uhl (2 April 1928 – 21 May 2001) was an Austrian operatic tenor, particularly associated with Wagner roles. Born in Matzleinsdorf, near Vienna, he studied in Vienna with Elisabeth Radó, and while still a student toured the Netherlands with an operetta troup. He made his operatic debut in Vienna, as Gounod's Faust in 1952, and then sang in Graz (1952–53),"
"Max Pallenberg Max Pallenberg (born December 18, 1877, as ""Max Pollack"" in Vienna - June 26, 1934, in Karlovy Vary) was an Austrian singer, actor and comedian. Although Pallenberg's career started in 1904 it wasn't until 1909 that he joined Theater an der Wien and (as of 1911) Vienna's Deutsches Volkstheater. However, it was at Berlin's Deutsches Theater where he left a lasting mark on German theatrical practice. He worked there with Max Reinhardt. Pallenberg's stellar role was in the Erwin Piscator's dramatic adaptation of Jaroslav Hašek's novel The Good Soldier Schweik. In 1917 he married Fritzi Massary who was"
"Medal in 1950. Patzak died on 26 January 1974, at Rottach-Egern in Bavaria, aged 75. Julius Patzak Julius Patzak (9 April 189826 January 1974) was an Austrian tenor distinguished in operatic and concert work. He was particularly noted in Mozart, Beethoven and in early 20th-century German repertoire. Julius Patzak was born in Vienna and originally studied conducting. He was also taught composition, by Franz Schmidt, Guido Adler and Eusebius Mandyczewski. It was in 1926 that he decided instead upon a career as a singer, and he made his debut as Radames in ""Aida"" at Reichenberg in that year. He sang"
"Gustav Fröhlich Gustav Fröhlich (21 March 1902 – 22 December 1987) was a German actor and film director. He landed secondary roles in a number of films and plays before landing his breakthrough role of Freder Fredersen in Fritz Lang's 1927 film ""Metropolis"". He remained a popular film star in Germany until the 1950s. Gustav Fröhlich was born an illegitimate child in Hanover, Germany, and was raised by foster parents. Before becoming an actor, he worked for a short time as an editor of a provincial newspaper and as the author of popular novels. During World War I he also"
"Jimmy Ritz Samuel Joachim (October 4, 1904 – November 17, 1985), known professionally as Jimmy Ritz, was an American actor and comedian. He was also the second Ritz Brother. Ritz was born Samuel Joachim to parents Max (December 1871 – January 4, 1939) and Pauline Joachim (May 1874 – November 26, 1935) on October 4, 1904. His father was a haberdasher from Austria-Hungary and his mother was Russian. Ritz had three brothers, George, Al, and Harry, and a sister, Gertrude Soll. The Ritz Brothers began as a dancing act in 1925, and by 1929 they had become vaudeville headliners. When"
"Albert Reiss Albert Reiss also ""Albert Reiß"" (22 February 1870 – 19 June 1940) was a German operatic tenor who had a prolific career in Europe and the United States during the first third of the twentieth century. He spent much of his career performing at the Metropolitan Opera where he sang in more than 1,000 performances, including several premieres, between 1901–1919. Excelling in the tenor buffo repertoire, Reiss was particularly associated with the roles of David in Wagner's ""Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg"" and Mime in Wagner's ""Der Ring des Nibelungen"", two roles he sang in numerous houses internationally. Reiss"
"he died. In 1813, he married Lucia Elizabeth Bartolozzi (1797-1856), who would become a famous singer, actress and theatre manager known under the stage name ""Madame Vestris"", whom he divorced in 1817. Armand Vestris Auguste-Armand Vestris (1788 or 1786 or 1795 Paris – 17 May 1825, Vienna) was an early 19th-century French dancer and choreographer. The son of Auguste Vestris and (if the year of birth is 1795) dancer Anne-Catherine Augier, called Aimée (1777–1809), he studied dance with his grandfather Gaétan and made his first appearance on the stage of the Opéra de Paris at age four, alongside his father"
"of the Devil (pegleg) in the theatre production ""The Black Rider"" (William S. Burroughs, Robert Wilson, Tom Waits) Horwitz is perhaps best known for playing Obergefreiter Fritz Reiser in ""Stalingrad"" (1993). Dominique Horwitz Dominique Horwitz (born 23 April 1957) is a Jewish French-born German film and television actor and singer. Horwitz was born on 23 April 1957 in Paris, France to German Jewish refugee parents, who had both fled Nazi Germany. In 1971 the family moved to Berlin. He attended a Franco-German grammar-school. He has a sister and a brother. For about twenty years, Horwitz was located in Hamburg where"
"Andrea Eckert Andrea Eckert (born 17 September 1958) is an Austrian stage and film actress, singer and documentary filmmaker. Born in Vienna, Eckert first studied literature in Paris, France, then decided on a stage career and trained with Dorothea Neff. Her roles have included the eponymous heroines in Hebbel's ""Judith"", Schiller's ""Maria Stuart"", Jelinek's ""Clara S."", Sophocles's ""Elektra"", Kleist's ""Penthesilea"", and Maria Callas in Terrence McNally's ""Meisterklasse"" (""Master Class""). Eckert has frequently appeared on television (for example in guest roles on ""Kommissar Rex"") and in the cinema. She also made documentaries about Lucia Westerguard, Turhan Bey, and Leopold and Josefine"
"Hawelka. She lives in Vienna. Andrea Eckert Andrea Eckert (born 17 September 1958) is an Austrian stage and film actress, singer and documentary filmmaker. Born in Vienna, Eckert first studied literature in Paris, France, then decided on a stage career and trained with Dorothea Neff. Her roles have included the eponymous heroines in Hebbel's ""Judith"", Schiller's ""Maria Stuart"", Jelinek's ""Clara S."", Sophocles's ""Elektra"", Kleist's ""Penthesilea"", and Maria Callas in Terrence McNally's ""Meisterklasse"" (""Master Class""). Eckert has frequently appeared on television (for example in guest roles on ""Kommissar Rex"") and in the cinema. She also made documentaries about Lucia Westerguard, Turhan"
"Fritz Feld Fritz Feld (born Fritz Feilchenfeld, October 15, 1900 – November 18, 1993) was a German-American film character actor who appeared in over 140 films in 72 years, both silent and sound. His trademark was to slap his mouth with the palm of his hand to create a ""pop"" sound. Born in Berlin, Germany, Feld began his acting career in Germany in 1917, making his screen debut in ""Der Golem und die Tänzerin"" (""The Golem and the Dancing Girl""). Feld filmed the sound sequences of the Cecil B. DeMille film ""The Godless Girl"" (1929), released by Pathé, without DeMille's"
"He also recorded the Hermit (in Weber's ""Der Freischütz"") for Joseph Keilberth and Kaspar for Lovro von Matacic, The Peasant (in Carl Orff's ""Die Kluge"") for both Wolfgang Sawallisch and Kurt Eichhorn, Kecal (in ""The Bartered Bride""), The Commendatore for Giulini, Pogner and King Henry for Rudolf Kempe, King Marke, Daland and the Landgrave for Franz Konwitschny, and Hunding, Hagen and Gurnemanz for Sir Georg Solti. Several anthology albums of Frick singing arias are also available. Gottlob Frick Gottlob Frick (28 July 1906 in Ölbronn-Dürrn – 18 August 1994 in Muhlacker) was a German bass who sang in opera. He"
"in Greenwich, England. Frederick Hobson Leslie Frederick George Hobson, known as Fred Leslie (1 April 1855 – 7 December 1892), was an English actor, singer, comedian and dramatist. Beginning his career in operetta, Leslie became best known for starring in, and writing (under the pseudonym A. C. Torr, a pun on the word ""actor""), popular burlesque plays and other comic works of theatre. Leslie was born in Woolwich, London. He was the youngest son of Charles Hobson, a wealthy military outfitter, and Sarah Hobson, ""née"" Pye. Leslie was educated in Woolwich, Lewisham and Pas-de-Calais. As a young man, he performed"
"in ""Les Huguenots"", and Vasco da Gama in ""L'Africaine"" among others. His Wagner roles included Loge in ""Das Rheingold"", the title role in ""Lohengrin"", Siegmund in ""Die Walküre"", and the title role in ""Tannhäuser"". Ferenczy was also admired for his performances of Adolar in Carl Maria von Weber's ""Euryanthe"", Arnoldo in Rossini's ""William Tell"", Eleazar in Fromental Halévy's ""La Juive"", and Manrico in Verdi's ""Il Trovatore"". Franz Ferenczy Franz Ferenczy (also Franz Friedemann) (1835 – 27 February 1881, Weimar) was a nineteenth-century German tenor who had a prolific opera career in Europe between 1859-1880. Possessing a powerful voice with a"
"from the 1960s until his death. International pop super star Johann Hölzel, also known by his stage name Falco was born in Vienna, Austria 19 February 1957. Conchita Wurst is also a renowned singer from the Austrian stock. Among Austrian Artists and architects one can find the painters Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller, Rudolf von Alt, Hans Makart, Gustav Klimt, Oskar Kokoschka, Egon Schiele, Carl Moll, and Friedensreich Hundertwasser, the photographers Inge Morath and Ernst Haas, and architects like Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach, Otto Wagner, Adolf Loos, and Hans Hollein (recipient of the 1985 Pritzker Architecture Prize). Contemporary artist Herbert Brandl."
"one of the divas of the 1920s. In 1933 they left Germany for Austria. A year later he died in an airplane crash near Karlovy Vary in today's Czech Republic. Pallenberg also starred in several films: Max Pallenberg Max Pallenberg (born December 18, 1877, as ""Max Pollack"" in Vienna - June 26, 1934, in Karlovy Vary) was an Austrian singer, actor and comedian. Although Pallenberg's career started in 1904 it wasn't until 1909 that he joined Theater an der Wien and (as of 1911) Vienna's Deutsches Volkstheater. However, it was at Berlin's Deutsches Theater where he left a lasting mark"
"Fritz Kortner Fritz Kortner (12 May 1892 – 22 July 1970) was an Austrian stage and film actor and theatre director. Kortner was born in Vienna as Fritz Nathan Kohn. He studied at the Vienna Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. After graduating, he joined Max Reinhardt in Berlin in 1911 and then Leopold Jessner in 1916. After his breakthrough performance in Ernst Toller's ""Transfiguration"" in 1919, he became one of Germany's best-known character actors and the nation's foremost performer of Expressionist works. He also appeared in over ninety films beginning in 1916. His specialty was in playing sinister and"
"George S. Irving, Dina Merrill, Marni Nixon and Jo Ann Worley. He died at the age of 96 on November 1, 2014. Donald Saddler Donald Edward Saddler (January 24, 1918 – November 1, 2014) was an American choreographer, dancer, and theatre director. Born in Van Nuys, California, Saddler studied dance at an early age to regain his strength after a bout of scarlet fever. He spent his school vacations at the MGM studios, eventually dancing in the chorus of movie musicals such as ""The Great Ziegfeld"" (1936), ""Rosalie"" (1937), ""Broadway Melody of 1938"" (1937), ""Babes in Arms"" (1939), and ""The"