The Astaire Story later won the Grammy Hall of Fame Award in 1999, a special Grammy award to honor recordings that are at least twenty-five years old and that have " qualitative or historical significance.

The first of these programs, 1958's An Evening with Fred Astaire, won nine Emmy Awards, including " Best Single Performance by an Actor " and " Most Outstanding Single Program of the Year.

Astaire won an Emmy Award for his performance.

His role in The Tap Dance Kid also earned Hinton a second Tony Award, the NAACP Award and the Fred Astaire Award, and Miss Saigon for which he won his third Tony Award.

In 1972, he won two primetime Emmy Awards for S ' Wonderful, S ' Marvelous, S ' Gershwin, which starred, among others, Jack Lemmon, Fred Astaire, Ethel Merman, Larry Kert, and Robert Guillaume.

Yorkin directed and produced the 1958 TV special An Evening With Fred Astaire, which won nine Emmy Awards.

She was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical category and won the Fred Astaire Award for Best Female Dancer for her tap dancing in the show.

He played the character " Eddie " in the show Movin ' Out for which he received the 2003 Tony and Drama Desk nominations for Best Male Dancer and Lead Actor in a Musical and won the 2003 TDF / Astaire Award for Best Male Dancer in a Musical and the Theater World Award.

In 1934, he won the first Academy Award for Best Original Song along with Con Conrad for his lyrics to " The Continental ", used in The Gay Divorcee ( 1934 ) starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers.

At the age of 11, he won a Channel Seven Junior Talent Quest with a judge comparing him to Fred Astaire.

He won an Emmy Award for the 1958 television special An Evening with Fred Astaire and was recognized with a National Film Award in 1980, and by the Joffrey Ballet in 1986.

He made a series of four highly rated Emmy Award-winning musical specials for television in 1958, 1959, 1960, and 1968, each featuring Barrie Chase, with whom Astaire enjoyed an Indian summer of dance creativity.

* 1958: Emmy Award for " Best Single Performance by an Actor " for An Evening with Fred Astaire

* 1960: Nominated for Emmy Award for " Program Achievement " for Another Evening with Fred Astaire

* 1961: Emmy Award for " Program Achievement " in 1961 for Astaire Time

* 1968: Nominated for an Emmy Award for Musical Variety Program for The Fred Astaire Show

Kaye starred in several movies with actress Virginia Mayo in the 1940s, and is well known for his roles in films such as The Secret Life of Walter Mitty ( 1947 ), The Inspector General ( 1949 ), On the Riviera ( 1951 ) co-starring Gene Tierney, Knock on Wood ( 1954 ), White Christmas ( 1954, in a role originally intended for Fred Astaire, then Donald O ' Connor ), The Court Jester ( 1956 ), and Merry Andrew ( 1958 ).

In Ziegfeld Follies ( 1946 ) – which was produced in 1944 but not released until 1946 – Kelly collaborated with Fred Astaire – for whom he had the greatest admiration – in the famous " The Babbitt and the Bromide " challenge dance routine.

It was a measure of his powers of persuasion that he managed to coax the 77-year-old Astaire – who had insisted that his contract rule out any dancing, having long since retired – into performing a series of song and dance duets, evoking a powerful nostalgia for the glory days of the American musical film.

Fred Astaire was also coaxed out of retirement for Easter Parade and made a permanent comeback.

During development at the University of Plymouth, in conjunction with BAE Systems and Sumitomo Precision Products, the iBot was nicknamed Fred Upstairs ( after Fred Astaire ) because it can climb stairs: hence the name Ginger, after Astaire's regular film partner, Ginger Rogers, for a successor product.

Top Hat was the most successful picture of Astaire and Rogers ' partnership ( and Astaire's second most successful picture after Easter Parade ), achieving second place in worldwide box-office receipts for 1935.

Dwight Taylor was the principal screenwriter in this, the first screenplay written specially for Astaire and Rogers.

Of his experience with Astaire in Top Hat Berlin wrote: " He's a real inspiration for a writer.

Due to the enormous labour involved in sewing each ostrich feather to the dress, Astaire — who normally approved his partner's gowns and suggested modifications if necessary during rehearsals — saw the dress for the first time on the day of the shoot, and was horrified at the way it shed clouds of feathers at every twist and turn, recalling later: " It was like a chicken attacked by a coyote, I never saw so many feathers in my life.

Later, Astaire and Pan presented Rogers with a gold feather for her charm bracelet, and serenaded her with a ditty parodying Berlin's tune:

Astaire declares his preference for bachelorhood and the song – this number was the brainchild of scriptwriter Dwight Taylor and is found in his earliest drafts – emerges naturally and in mid-sentence.

Astaire sings to Rogers ' back, but the audience can see that Rogers ' attitude towards him softens during the song, and the purpose of the ensuing dance is for her to communicate this change to her partner.

For " Top Hat, White Tie and Tails ", probably Astaire's most celebrated tap solo, the idea for the title song came from Astaire who described to Berlin a routine he had created for the 1930 Ziegfeld Broadway flop Smiles called " Say, Young Man of Manattan ," in which he gunned down a chorus of men – which included teenagers Bob Hope and Larry Adler – with his cane.

They make way for Astaire who strides confidently to the front of the stage and delivers the song, which features the famous line: " I'm stepping out, my dear, to breathe an atmosphere that simply reeks with class ," trading the occasional tap barrage with the chorus as he sings. The dance begins with Astaire and chorus moving in step.

Dining together during carnival night in Venice, and to help assuage her guilt, Astaire declares: " Let's eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we have to face him ," which serves as the cue for the music of " The Piccolino ", the film's big production number.

" The Piccolino ( reprise )": After the various parties confront each other in the bridal suite with Rogers ' marriage to Rhodes revealed as a fake, the scene is set for Astaire and Rogers to dance into the sunset, which they duly do, in this fragment of a much longer duet – the original was cut after the July 1935 previews – but not before they parade across the Venetian set and reprise the Piccolino step.

She went on to make a series of films with Fox, Warner Bros. (" Gold Diggers of 1933 "), Universal, Paramount, and RKO Radio Pictures and, in her second RKO picture, Flying Down to Rio ( 1933 ), she worked for the first time with Fred Astaire.

Rogers was most famous for her partnership with Fred Astaire.

This event, which was shown on television, was somewhat marred when Astaire's widow, Robyn Smith, who permitted clips of Astaire dancing with Rogers to be shown for free at the function itself, was unable to come to terms with CBS Television for broadcast rights to the clips ( all previous rights holders having donated broadcast rights gratis ).

Astaire was always on the lookout for new steps on the circuit and was starting to demonstrate his ceaseless quest for novelty and perfection.

* TDF / Astaire Award Best Choreographer: Movin ' Out

Astaire played the role of Julian Osborne in the 1959 movie On the Beach and was nominated a Golden Globe Best Supporting Actor award for his performance, losing to Stephen Boyd in Ben Hur.

Astaire continued to act into the 1970s, appearing on television as the father of Robert Wagner's character of Alexander Mundy in It Takes a Thief and in films such as The Towering Inferno ( 1974 ), in which he danced with Jennifer Jones and for which he received his only Academy Award nomination, in the category of Best Supporting Actor.

* BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role – ( Fred Astaire )

* Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – ( Fred Astaire )

* Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor – ( Fred Astaire )

In Finian's Rainbow ( 1968 ), she starred opposite Fred Astaire and she was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress-Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for her performance.

Esquire named Roy Haynes one of the Best Dressed Men in America in 1960, along with Fred Astaire, Clark Gable and Cary Grant.

In 1996, she was awarded the Fred Astaire Award for Best Female Dancer for her performance in a Broadway adaptation of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II's film State Fair.

Matthew Bourne has twice been nominated as Best Director at the Olivier Awards, and his achievements in choreography have been recognised with over 30 international awards, including the Evening Standard Award, The South Bank Show Award, Time Out Award and the Astaire Award for Dance on Broadway.

From then on the two began a lifelong professional collaboration and friendship which included all the RKO Astaire pictures, including A Damsel in Distress ( 1937 ) in which Ginger Rogers did not appear, and for which he was awarded the 1937 Academy Award for Best Dance Direction.

* " Dearly Beloved ": Kern ’ s ballad became a major hit for Astaire – who sings it here – and it was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song.