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1. The Easter Bunny Is Coming to Town (1977)
directed by Arthur Rankin, Jr., Jules Bass
featuring Fred AstaireAn animated Fred Astaire stars in this animated holiday story, which offers a fanciful story of how the Easter Bunny came to be. Sunny (voice of Skip ... More
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2. Holiday Inn (1942)
directed by Mark Sandrich
featuring Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire, Virginia Dale, Marjorie Reynolds, Walter AbelBing Crosby and Fred Astaire star in Holiday Inn as a popular nightclub song-and-dance team. When his heart is broken by his girlfriend, Crosby ... More
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3. Santa Claus Is Coming to Town (1970)
directed by Arthur Rankin, Jr., Jules Bass
featuring Fred Astaire, Keenan Wynn, Mickey RooneyThe story of how Santa Claus came to be is brought to life through the magic of stop-motion animation in this Christmas-themed production for the ... More
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4. Easter Parade (1948)
directed by Charles Walters
featuring Judy Garland, Fred Astaire, Peter Lawford, Ann Miller, Jules MunshinFred Astaire had announced his retirement before the cameras began to roll on Easter Parade, but he decided to accept the film's leading role when ... More
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5. A Damsel in Distress (1937)
directed by George Stevens
featuring Fred Astaire, George Burns, Gracie Allen, Joan Fontaine, Reginald GardinerFred Astaire's first RKO musical without his longtime partner Ginger Rogers is one of his best from any period -- even though it's obvious that ... More
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6. Three Little Words (1950)
directed by Richard Thorpe
featuring Fred Astaire, Red Skelton, Vera-Ellen, Arlene Dahl, Keenan WynnMGM's Three Little Words is a "twin" musical biopic, covering the lives and careers of songwriters Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby. Fred Astaire plays ... More
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7. Finian's Rainbow (1968)
directed by Francis Ford Coppola
featuring Fred Astaire, Petula Clark, Tommy Steele, Don Francks, Keenan WynnNearly 20 years after it opened on Broadway, the E.Y. Harburg/Fred Saidy musical Finian's Rainbow was committed to film. Set in the mythical southern ... More
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8. Swing Time (1936)
directed by George Stevens
featuring Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Victor Moore, Helen Broderick, Eric BloreThe sixth of RKO's Fred Astaire -Ginger Rogers pairings of the 1930s, Swing Time starts off with bandleader Astaire getting cold feet on his wedding ... More
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9. Royal Wedding (1951)
directed by Stanley Donen
featuring Fred Astaire, Jane Powell, Peter Lawford, Sarah Churchill, Keenan WynnTwo real-life events were incorporated into the plot of the 1951 MGM musical Royal Wedding. One, the marriage of Fred Astaire's sister Adele to a ... More
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10. The Band Wagon (1953)
directed by Vincente Minnelli
featuring Fred Astaire, Cyd Charisse, Oscar Levant, Nanette Fabray, Jack BuchananOne of the most subtle and sophisticated of the musical comedies that came out of MGM's Arthur Freed Unit in the '40s and '50s, The Band Wagon stars ... More
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11. Daddy Long Legs (1955)
directed by Jean Negulesco
featuring Fred Astaire, Leslie Caron, Terry Moore, Thelma Ritter, Fred ClarkList of all editionsThis last remake (thus far) of the Jean Webster novel Daddy Long Legs was extensively revised to accommodate the talents of Fred Astaire and Leslie ... More
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12. That's Entertainment Part II (1976)
directed by Gene Kelly, Jack Haley, Jr.
featuring Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly, Spencer Tracy, Katharine HepburnList of all editionsThis represents MGM's 1976 sequel to its enormously successful compilation film That's Entertainment (1974). In lieu of the multi-narrator device of ... More
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13. You'll Never Get Rich (1941)
directed by Sidney Lanfield
featuring Fred Astaire, Rita Hayworth, Robert Benchley, John Hubbard, Osa MassenList of all editionsYou'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 with his favorite female ... More
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14. The Barkleys of Broadway (1949)
directed by Charles Walters
featuring Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Oscar Levant, Billie Burke, Gale RobbinsList of all editionsThe Barkleys of Broadway became Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers' "reunion" picture purely by accident. Originally conceived as a follow-up to the ... More
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15. Roberta (1935)
directed by William Seiter
featuring Irene Dunne, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Randolph Scott, Helen WestleyList of all editionsAlice Duer Miller's novel Gowns by Roberta was adapted into the 1933 Broadway musical Roberta, with music by Jerome Kern and Otto Harbach. The 1935 ... More
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16. Carefree (1938)
directed by Mark Sandrich
featuring Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Ralph Bellamy, Luella Gear, Jack CarsonList of all editionsIt's more Ginger Rogers than Fred Astaire, and more comedy than singing and dancing in this Astaire-Rogers entry into the screwball comedy ... More
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17. The Notorious Landlady (1962)
directed by Richard Quine
featuring Kim Novak, Jack Lemmon, Fred Astaire, Lionel Jeffries, Estelle WinwoodList of all editionsThis uneven farce by director Richard Quine has its hilarious and witty moments as American diplomat William Gridley (Jack Lemmon) inadvertently gets ... More
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18. Funny Face (1957)
directed by Stanley Donen
featuring Audrey Hepburn, Fred Astaire, Kay Thompson, Michel Auclair, Robert FlemyngList of all editionsThis filmed version of the 1927 George Gershwin Broadway musical Funny Face utilizes the play's original star, Fred Astaire, and several of the ... More
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19. Follow the Fleet (1936)
directed by Mark Sandrich
featuring Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Randolph Scott, Harriet Hilliard, Astrid AllwynList of all editionsThis lesser Astaire/Rogers vehicle is one of several screen versions of the venerable Hubert Osborne stage play Shore Leave. For reasons unknown, ... More
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20. Yolanda and the Thief (1945)
directed by Vincente Minnelli
featuring Fred Astaire, Lucille Bremer, Frank Morgan, Mildred Natwick, Mary NashList of all editionsYolanda and the Thief has long been considered the nadir of Arthur Freed's years as an MGM musical producer. Unappreciated at the time of its release ... More
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21. Broadway Melody of 1940 (1940)
directed by Norman Taurog
featuring Fred Astaire, Eleanor Powell, George Murphy, Frank Morgan, Ian HunterList of all editionsMGM's third follow-up to its landmark Broadway Melody is short on story, but that's okay, since the plot is merely a clothesline upon which to hang ... More
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22. On the Beach (1959)
directed by Stanley Kramer
featuring Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Fred Astaire, Anthony Perkins, Donna AndersonList of all editionsAlthough there'd been "doomsday dramas" before it, Stanley Kramer's On the Beach was considered the first "important" entry in this genre when ... More
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23. The Sky's the Limit (1943)
directed by Edward H. Griffith
featuring Fred Astaire, Joan Leslie, Robert Benchley, Robert Ryan, Elizabeth PattersonList of all editionsAfter a four-year absence, Fred Astaire returns to RKO Radio for the Ginger Rogers-less The Sky's the Limit. Astaire plays a war hero who wants to ... More
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24. Second Chorus (1940)
directed by Frank Cavett, H.C. Potter
featuring Fred Astaire, Paulette Goddard, Charles Butterworth, Burgess MeredithList of all editionsThough not the best of the Fred Astaire musicals, Second Chorus is the most easily accessible thanks to its current public-domain status. Astaire and ... More







