Who was Fred Astaire's female leading lady in the 1948 film `Easter Parade'?
"his sister Adele, he co-introduced the Gershwins' ""I'll Build a Stairway to Paradise"" from ""Stop Flirting"" (1923), ""Fascinating Rhythm"" in ""Lady, Be Good"" (1924), ""Funny Face"" in ""Funny Face"" (1927); and, in duets with Ginger Rogers, he presented Irving Berlin's ""I'm Putting All My Eggs in One Basket"" in ""Follow the Fleet"" (1936), Jerome Kern's ""Pick Yourself Up"" and ""A Fine Romance"" in ""Swing Time"" (1936), along with the Gershwins' ""Let's Call the Whole Thing Off"" from ""Shall We Dance"" (1937). With Judy Garland, he sang Irving Berlin's ""A Couple of Swells"" from ""Easter Parade"" (1948); and, with Jack Buchanan,"
"only its cost, but also the increasing expense of the shooting delays while Garland was ill, as well because the general public was not yet willing to accept her in a sophisticated vehicle. Following her work on ""The Pirate"", she co-starred for the first and only time with Fred Astaire (who replaced Gene Kelly after Kelly had broken his ankle) in ""Easter Parade"", which became her top-grossing film at MGM and quickly re-established her as one of MGM's primary assets. Thrilled by the huge box-office receipts of ""Easter Parade"", MGM immediately teamed Garland and Astaire in ""The Barkleys of Broadway""."
"later, Keenan Wynn was confirmed to play a co-starring role. Shortly after, Van Heflin and William Powell were revealed to be in negotiations for the title roles. In October, Kelly broke his ankle, forcing him to give up the leading role in ""Easter Parade"" (1948), and delaying the start of filming. Though Kelly's ankle had mended sufficiently to begin shooting in January, 1948, his elaborate fencing scenes required more healing time, and were pushed back to the end of filming. To appear as Lady de Winter, Lana Turner had to relinquish her role in an unfinished project called ""Bedeviled"". In"
"Judy Garland, Gene Kelly, Ann Miller, Donald O'Connor, Cyd Charisse, Mickey Rooney, Vera-Ellen, Jane Powell, Howard Keel, and Kathryn Grayson. Fred Astaire was also coaxed out of retirement for ""Easter Parade"" and made a permanent comeback. The other Hollywood studios proved themselves equally adept at tackling the genre at this time, particularly in the 1950s. Four adaptations of Rodgers and Hammerstein shows - ""Oklahoma!"", ""The King and I"", ""Carousel"", and ""South Pacific"" - were all successes, while Paramount Pictures released ""White Christmas"" and ""Funny Face"", two films which used previously written music by Irving Berlin and the Gershwins, respectively. Warner"
"""Easter Parade"" (1948), a huge hit, and Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon in ""Julia Misbehaves"" (1948), also popular. He played Laurie in MGM's version of ""Little Women"" (1949) alongside Allyson and Elizabeth Taylor. He was billed beneath Pidgeon and Ethel Barrymore in the anti Communist ""The Red Danube"" (1949) and was one of Deborah Kerr's leading men in ""Please Believe Me"" (1951). He was Jane Powell's love interest in ""Royal Wedding"" (1951) with Fred Astaire and co starred with Janet Leigh in ""Just This Once"" (1952), both popular. 20th Century Fox borrowed him for ""Kangaroo"" (1952), a melodrama shot in"
"protecting her young."" An additional night's work by seamstresses resolved much of the problem, however, careful examination of the dance on film reveals feathers floating around Astaire and Rogers and lying on the dance floor. Later, Astaire and Pan presented Rogers with a gold feather for her charm bracelet, and serenaded her with a ditty parodying Berlin's tune: Thereafter, Astaire nicknamed Rogers ""Feathers"" — also a title of one of the chapters in his autobiography — and parodied his experience in a song and dance routine with Judy Garland in ""Easter Parade"" (1948). Astaire also chose and provided his own"
"Scenic design by Frank E. Gates, and Edward A. Morange. Costume design by Wanamaker, Paul Poiret, and George Barber. It ran for 63 performances, closing on January 20, 1923. The cast was headlined by Fred Astaire (Gerald Lane), Adele Astaire (Judy Jordan), and Philip Tonge (Lord Kinlock). The Astaire siblings played the romantic couple. Gerald Bordman reports that ""Broadway’s critics were not bowled over. Although many headlines implied reviews would be raves, notices themselves were filled with qualifications. Most of the enthusiasm was reserved for the Astaires. When it came to Kern's score, the critics were generally unhappy"". Judy Jordan"
"one up. During World War II, Mayfair embarked on a USO tour of Europe and North Africa with the likes of Kay Francis, Carole Landis and Martha Raye. All four performers played themselves in the film recreation of the tour, ""Four Jills in a Jeep"" (1944). Mayfair appeared in a number of shorts, but this and ""Paramount on Parade"" (1930) were her only feature film credits. The celebrated dancer Irene Castle considered having Mayfair (among others) play her in the film ""The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle"", but decided she was not a big enough star. As Fred Astaire"
"Conrad Salinger, Johnny Green, Lennie Hayton, and many others. He also helped shape the careers of stars including Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Red Skelton, Lena Horne, Jane Powell, Esther Williams, Kathryn Grayson, Howard Keel, Cyd Charisse, Ann Miller, Vera-Ellen, and many others. He brought Fred Astaire to MGM after Astaire's tenure at RKO and coaxed him out of semi-retirement to star with Garland in ""Easter Parade"". His team of writers, directors, composers and stars produced a steady stream of popular, critically acclaimed musicals until the late 1950s. He allowed his directors and choreographers free rein, something unheard of in those"
"the Dark"" (1944), and ""Week-End at the Waldorf"" (1945), and became the highest-paid performer in Hollywood. However, by the end of the decade, her film career had peaked. Arthur Freed reunited her with Fred Astaire in ""The Barkleys of Broadway"" in 1949, when Judy Garland was unable to appear in the role that was to have reunited her with her ""Easter Parade"" co-star. Rogers' film career entered a period of gradual decline in the 1950s, as parts for older actresses became more difficult to obtain, but she still scored with some solid movies. She starred in ""Storm Warning"" (1950) with"
"magic would happen. Unfortunately, the film did not repeat the earlier film's success. While the film did reasonably well financially, overall it proved to be a disappointment. ""Let's Dance"" was completely overshadowed by Hutton's other musical film of 1950, ""Annie Get Your Gun"", which became one of the highest-grossing films of the year. Hutton was loaned to MGM to replace Garland (because of illness) as Annie Oakley in ""Annie Get Your Gun"". Also, Astaire's character's first name in ""Let's Dance"" (Don) is the same first name as his character in ""Easter Parade"". Frank Loesser wrote the music. Let's Dance (1950"
"25-year-old Phyllis Potter in 1933 (formerly Phyllis Livingston Baker; born 1908, died September 13, 1954), a Boston-born New York socialite and former wife of Eliphalet Nott Potter III (1906–1981), after pursuing her ardently for about two years, and despite his mother and sister's objections. Phyllis's death from lung cancer, at the age of 46, ended 21 years of a blissful marriage and left Astaire devastated. Astaire attempted to drop out of the film ""Daddy Long Legs"" (1955), which he was in the process of filming, offering to pay the production costs to date, but was persuaded to stay. In addition"
"was inspired to make Daddy Long Legs a musical film. While Zanuck still envisioned Gaynor for the main female role, Astaire insisted on casting actress and dancer Leslie Caron. Caron was then loaned to Fox by MGM, whom Caron was still under contract with. Production was halted in July, 1954, as Astaire's wife Phyllis became more ill from lung cancer. She would pass away in September, putting Astaire in a state of grief and further stalling his work on the film. Although replacements were being sought for Astaire's role as too much money had been spent on the production already,"
"Fred Astaire in the musicals ""Three Little Words"" and ""The Belle of New York"". She had a co-starring role with Donald O'Connor in the Ethel Merman vehicle, ""Call Me Madam"". Vera-Ellen's next to last film role was the 1954 blockbuster hit ""White Christmas"", co-starring with Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, and Rosemary Clooney. She starred in only one more film, the 1957 British production ""Let's Be Happy"". Vera-Ellen was a reasonably frequent guest on US variety programming in the mid-to-late 1950s. Her final performances were on a November 22, 1958, television episode of ""The Perry Como Show"" and a February 14,"
"Spring Parade Spring Parade is a 1940 American musical comedy film directed by Henry Koster and starring Deanna Durbin. It is a remake of the 1934 film ""Spring Parade"". Producer Joe Pasternak and screenwriter Ernst Marischka worked on both films. Based on a story by Ernst Marischka, the film is about an Hungarian woman who attends a Viennese fair and buys a card from a gypsy fortune teller which says she will meet someone important and is destined for a happy marriage. Soon after the woman gets a job as a baker's assistant and meets a handsome army drummer who"
"as Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn, and a montage of iconic stars such as Clark Gable, Mickey Rooney, John Barrymore, Wallace Beery, Joan Crawford, Jean Harlow, James Stewart, Lana Turner, and Greta Garbo. Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire hosted the film and Kelly directed the introductory segments featuring him and Astaire, which included location footage of Kelly returning to Paris, the city featured in two of MGM's most famous productions, ""An American in Paris"" and ""Gigi"". This was the last film Kelly directed. Several new musical numbers featured Astaire and Kelly, including a couple of routines in which they danced"
"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"
"the eldery lady as music from ""The Pirates of Penzance"" plays, and Gridley's chief and the Scotland Yard detective arrive to find the nurse detained. Lemmon and Novak had appeared together on-screen twice previously, in ""Phffft!"" (1954), and in ""Bell, Book and Candle"" (1958). In both later films, Novak portrayed a landlady. Ernie Kovacs was originally signed to play Fred Astaire's role before being killed in an auto crash. Kovacs and Lemmon talk about this during an episode of the game show ""What's My Line?"" in which Lemmon was the ""mystery guest"" and Kovacs was a panelist. The song ""A"
"after a successful stint with Fred in the revue ""The Band Wagon"" on Broadway, Astaire retired from the stage. On May 9 of that year, Astaire married Lord Charles Cavendish, receiving the courtesy title of ""Lady Charles"". They moved to County Waterford in Ireland, where they lived at Lismore Castle. She had three children: a daughter in 1933 and twin sons in 1935, all of whom died soon after birth. She visited Hollywood and appeared in January 1936 on the Music Variety Show, but she admitted to feeling intimidated by her brother's reputation. During their partnership, Fred, whose perfectionism earned"
"in films such as ""Calamity Anne's Inheritance"", ""Calamity Anne's Vanity"", ""Calamity Anne's Beauty"", and ""Calamity Anne, Heroine"" all in 1913. The Calamity Anne series was the beginning of ""horse operas"". She also starred with William Garwood in films such as ""The Oath of Pierre"". The actress' married name was Louise Lester Beal. She was the widow of Frank Beal, a film director. Louise Lester died at the Motion Picture Country Home in 1952 at the age of 85 years. Her funeral was conducted in the chapel of the Utter-McKinley Strouthers Mortuary, 6240 Hollywood Boulevard. The services were conducted by the"
"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 careers spanned a total of 76 years, during which he starred in more than 10 Broadway and London musicals, made 31 musical films, 4 television specials, and issued numerous recordings. As a dancer, he is best remembered for his uncanny sense of rhythm, his perfectionism, his innovation, and as the dancing partner and on-screen romantic"
"York Times"" wrote, ""It is for the most part quite a lively affair... The dancing of Fred Astaire and Miss Crawford is most graceful and charming. The photographic effects of their scenes are an impressive achievement...Miss Crawford takes her role with no little seriousness."" Box office<br> According to MGM records the film earned $1,490,000 in the US and Canada and $916,000 elsewhere, resulting in a profit of $744,000. Dancing Lady Dancing Lady is a 1933 American pre-Code musical film starring Joan Crawford and Clark Gable, and featuring Franchot Tone, Fred Astaire, Robert Benchley, and Ted Healy and His Stooges (who"
"including ""Meet Me in St. Louis"" (1944), ""Easter Parade"" (1948), ""On the Town"" (1949), ""Show Boat"" (1951), ""An American in Paris"" (1951), ""Singin' in the Rain"" (1952), and ""The Band Wagon"" (1953). Edens eventually separated from the MGM unit in the mid-1950s when the musical film's days of glory were coming to an end. He had his own office and worked on such projects as ""Funny Face"" (1957) with Audrey Hepburn, Fred Astaire, and Kay Thompson at Paramount. Edens is considered to be an important creative musical figure from the end of the 1930s until the beginning of the 1960s."
"Ellen and John, are in fact married on the royal wedding day. Stanley Donen and Jane Powell were not part of the film's original crew and cast; former dancer Charles Walters was the film's original director, with June Allyson as Astaire's co-star. Judy Garland was then signed as Ellen due to Allyson's pregnancy, over the objection of Walters who had spent a year-and-a-half nurturing her through her previous film, ""Summer Stock"". Instead of listening to Walters' objection, Arthur Freed brought in Donen as director; Garland, who during rehearsal worked only half-days, started calling in sick as principal photography was to"
"believed that he and Donen ""were a good team. I thought we complemented each other very well."" After the success of ""On the Town"", Donen signed a seven-year contract with MGM as a director. His next two films were for Freed, but without Kelly. After being replaced as director on ""Pagan Love Song"" over personal differences with star Esther Williams, Donen was given the chance to direct his boyhood idol Fred Astaire. ""Royal Wedding"" starred Astaire and Jane Powell as a brother-sister American dancing team performing in England during the royal wedding of Elizabeth and Philip in 1947. Judy Garland"
"the box-office. MGM wanted Kelly to return to safer and more commercial vehicles, but he ceaselessly fought for an opportunity to direct his own musical film. In the interim, he capitalized on his swashbuckling image as d'Artagnan in ""The Three Musketeers""—and also appeared with Vera-Ellen in the ""Slaughter on Tenth Avenue"" ballet in ""Words and Music"" (1948). He was due to play the male lead opposite Garland in ""Easter Parade"" (1948), but broke his ankle playing volleyball. He withdrew from the film and convinced Fred Astaire to come out of retirement to replace him. There followed ""Take Me Out to"
"at Glen Haven Memorial Park in Sylmar, California, a Los Angeles suburb. Vera-Ellen Vera-Ellen (born Vera-Ellen Westmeier Rohe; February 16, 1921 – August 30, 1981) was an American dancer and actress. She is principally celebrated for her performances with partners Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly, Danny Kaye, and Donald O'Connor. She is best known for her starring roles in ""On the Town"" with Kelly and ""White Christmas"" (1954) with Kaye. Vera-Ellen Westmeier Rohe was born in Norwood, Ohio (a suburb of Cincinnati), to Martin F. Rohe, a piano dealer, and Alma Catherine Westmeier, both descended from German immigrants. Her hyphenated name"
"Lee Patrick (actress) Lee Patrick (November 22, 1901 – November 21, 1982) was an American actress whose career began in 1922 on the New York stage with her role in ""The Bunch and Judy"" which headlined Adele Astaire and featured Adele's brother Fred Astaire. Patrick continued to perform in dozens of roles on the stage for the next decade, frequently in musicals and comedies, but also in dramatic parts like her 1931 performance as Meg in ""Little Women"". She began to branch out into films in 1929. For half a century she created a credible body of cinematic work, her"
"of $2,325,420. ""The Barkleys of Broadway"" would be Astaire and Rogers' final movie together, although both would continue to make films with other stars. In the 50s, Rogers' movie career declined due to a move away from classic film stars, but Astaire remained in the industry and branched out into television. 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"
"for growing vegetables. In 1969 the burial ground was cleared to enable land to be sold off for redevelopment. A skull, part anatomised, was conjectured to be Sterne's and a partial skeleton separated from the other remains to be transferred to Coxwold churchyard by the Laurence Sterne Trust. 11,500 further remains were taken to West Norwood Cemetery and cremated, for burial there. In the musical ""My Fair Lady"", Alfred Doolittle (Stanley Holloway), having just been provided with an inheritance and having to move into ""middle-class morality"", invites his daughter Eliza Doolittle (Audrey Hepburn) to his wedding at this church. Following"
"Holiday Inn (film) Holiday Inn is a 1942 American musical film directed by Mark Sandrich and starring Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire. With music by Irving Berlin, the composer wrote twelve songs specifically for the film, the best known being ""White Christmas"". The film features a complete reuse of the song ""Easter Parade"", written by Berlin for the 1933 Broadway revue ""As Thousands Cheer"". The film's choreography was by Danny Dare. The film received a 1943 Academy Award for Best Original Song (Irving Berlin for ""White Christmas""), as well as Academy Award nominations for Best Score (Robert Emmett Dolan) and"
"Daphne Oxenford Daphne Margaret du Grivel Oxenford (31 October 1919 – 21 December 2012) was an English actress, known for her early stage roles, and later her radio and television work. She was best known for her role as original character Esther Hayes in ""Coronation Street"". Other roles included Mrs Plummer in ""Man About the House"" (1973), Alice Dutton in ""EastEnders"" (1990), and Mrs. Oldknow in the mini-series ""The Children of Green Knowe"" (1986). She was to appear in the 2008 Doctor Who TV episode ""The Unicorn and the Wasp"" as an elderly Agatha Christie. The scene was filmed, but"
"on the Orpheum vaudeville circuit in the 1910's"". Betty Farrington Betty Farrington (May 14, 1898 – February 3, 1989) was an American character actress active from the 1920s through 1960. Born in Missouri's largest city, Kansas City, Betty Farrington would play mostly supporting and minor roles during her career, although she would occasionally be given a featured or leading part, appearing in almost 100 films during her career. Some of the more notable films she appeared in include: Preston Sturges' ""The Lady Eve"" (1941), starring Barbara Stanwyck and Henry Fonda; 1942's ""My Favorite Blonde"" and 1947's ""My Favorite Brunette"", both"