GREAT STUFF FROM OLD BROADWAY 2: FRED ASTAIRE NOW EVEN MORE pix added- Page 3

[louisamayfoster]

Posted: 1/22/08 at 2:31pm

What a beautiful collection! Thank you for sharing it with us.
I had a young boyfriend who admired Fred and one day just popped in on him at his home.....uh, he did knock first. He was actually invited in to meet Fred and they had a memorable time together chatting by the pool. What a gracious man.

[allofmylife]

Posted: 1/22/08 at 2:41pm

When I was a kid, I wanted to work for Walt Disney. I loved the Imagineering segments of The Wonderful World of Disney (oh, and I wanted to be an astronaut, too). As a teenager, I wanted to meet Fred Astaire. I finally made it to Hollywood four years after Fred died. I have worked for every studio EXCEPT Disney. Go figure.

Oh, and people have often suggested I may be a space cadet.

[allofmylife]

Posted: 1/22/08 at 8:27pm

bump

[dancinfan]

Posted: 1/22/08 at 10:36pm

Fantastic stuff - thank you for sharing it. I hope you have catalogued and insured your collection for plenty!

[JMVR]

Posted: 1/23/08 at 12:21am

Thank you so much for sharing the photos as well as your research. This is the kind of thread that I come to this site for. Please keep them coming. Are you going to profile other stars later? Merman, Bert Lahr, Mary Martin, etc?

Thanks again for the thread!

[InfiniteTheaterFrenzy]

Posted: 1/23/08 at 12:45am

Thank you so much for this thread. It's wonderful.

[allofmylife]

Posted: 1/23/08 at 3:01am

JMVR, I'm working on a "On Your Toes" thread now. You should also check out my "Dr Sunshine" thread. I'll find it and bump it up. As I'm traveling, I am only using graphics from my hard drive that I have scanned but I wanted to do one on "Oklahoma" - I scored a great set of rarely seen photos of the OBC. We'll see...

UPDATE: Hmmmm, seems they deleted all my stuff. May have to find a more welcoming site for Old Broadway stuff....

Updated On: 1/23/08 at 03:01 AM

[LePetiteFromage]

Posted: 1/23/08 at 3:09am

Updated On: 5/8/09 at 03:09 AM

[allofmylife]

Posted: 1/23/08 at 3:25am

I found the stuff. It's still here. To celebrate, here's more fred.

This is Astaire on the left very, very young.

Updated On: 1/23/08 at 03:25 AM

[allofmylife]

Posted: 1/23/08 at 10:34pm

I bought this photo from Jay Perrino on eBay. They bought the Culver Pictures collection of several million photos and are selling them one-by-one. Not cheap, but amazing. The back of the photo was festooned with stamps from The New York American newspaper. Every time the photo was used, they would stamp the date and the size (column width and length). The photo also has the original rubber stamp from the musical comedy "Miss Adele Astaire appearing in "For Goodness Sake" which means it's utterly vintage.

Updated On: 1/23/08 at 10:34 PM

[allofmylife]

Posted: 1/23/08 at 10:36pm

Cigarette card. No health warning there. Collect all 144 and paste them into a book.

[allofmylife]

Posted: 1/24/08 at 10:55pm

one final bump with the new stuff. I'm working on a new one about Rodgers and Hart.

Updated On: 1/24/08 at 10:55 PM