Fred Adele Astaire Fascinating Rhythm, 1926, Gershwin on Piano
Fred Astaire (18991987) Adele Astaire (18961981) George Gershwin (18981937) The dancing partner who made Fred Astaire famous isn t the one most people remember. Fred, born in 1899, and his sister, Adele were the children of an Austrian immigrant named Austerlitz who had settled in Omaha, Nebraska. Their mother had a notion that they should learn to dance, so they journeyed east to New York in 1903 and began a long vaudeville career as a boyandgirl specialty duo. The transition to adulthood was an awkw
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