Following the success of You're a Big Boy Now, Coppola was offered the reins of the movie version of the Broadway musical Finian's Rainbow, starring Petula Clark, in her first American film, and veteran Fred Astaire.

He withdrew from the film and encouraged Fred Astaire to come out of retirement to replace him.

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.

An avid dancer, Abdul was inspired towards a show business career by Gene Kelly in the classic film Singin ' in the Rain as well as Debbie Allen, Fred Astaire, and Bob Fosse.

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.

Other films include The Hucksters ( 1947 ) with Clark Gable, Show Boat ( 1951 ), The Snows of Kilimanjaro ( 1952 ) with Gregory Peck, Lone Star ( 1952 ) with Clark Gable, Mogambo ( 1953 ) with Clark Gable and Grace Kelly, 1954's The Barefoot Contessa with Humphrey Bogart ( which some consider to be Gardner's " signature film " since it mirrored her real life custom of going barefoot ), Bhowani Junction ( 1956 ), The Sun Also Rises with Tyrone Power and Errol Flynn ( in which she played party-girl Brett Ashley ) ( 1957 ), and the film version of Nevil Shute's best-selling On the Beach with Peck and Fred Astaire.

Top Hat is a 1935 screwball comedy musical film in which Fred Astaire plays an American dancer named Jerry Travers, who comes to London to star in a show produced by Horace Hardwick ( Edward Everett Horton ).

Astaire had never met Berlin before this film, although he had danced on stage to some of his tunes as early as 1915.

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.

In both cases, the film features a commentary by Astaire's daughter, Ava Astaire McKenzie, and Larry Billman, author of Fred Astaire, a Bio-bibliography.

In both releases, the film features an introduction by Ava Astaire McKenzie.

It also provided the basis of a 1957 film directed by Rouben Mamoulian and starring Fred Astaire and Cyd Charisse.

* In the film The Pleasure of His Company, Fred Astaire, acting as Biddeford ' Pogo ' Poole, mentions that his going to visit Brooke's grave on the Greek island of Skyros.

For special praise, they have singled out her performance in " Waltz in Swing Time " from Swing Time ( 1936 ), which is generally considered to be the most virtuosic partnered routine ever committed to film by Astaire.

She generally avoided solo dance performances: Astaire always included at least one virtuoso solo routine in each film, while Rogers performed only one: " Let Yourself Go " from Follow the Fleet ( 1936 ).

Ginger with Fred Astaire in the film Roberta ( 1935 film ) | Roberta ( 1935 ).

Although the dance routines were choreographed by Astaire and his collaborator Hermes Pan, both have acknowledged Rogers's input and have also testified to her consummate professionalism, even during periods of intense strain, as she tried to juggle her many other contractual film commitments with the punishing rehearsal schedules of Astaire, who made at most two films in any one year.

No films have been made about Ginger Rogers, possibly because her best-known co-star Fred Astaire stipulated in his will that no film representations of him were ever to be made.

* Likenesses of Astaire and Rogers, apparently painted over from the Cheek to Cheek dance in Top Hat, are in the " Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds " section of The Beatles film Yellow Submarine ( 1968 ).

Fred Astaire ( born Frederick Austerlitz ; May 10, 1899 – June 22, 1987 ) was an American film and Broadway stage dancer, choreographer, singer, musician and actor.

In the film, Grant plays a near-sighted paleontologist who suffers one humiliation after another due to the lovestruck socialite played by Hepburn.

For example, in the film Return of the Jedi, the character Boba Fett suffers a horrible death.

Perhaps the most explicit reference to the Holocaust in the film series would be in the prequel film X-Men: First Class, in which a fourteen year old Magneto suffers Nazi human experimentation during his time in the camps and witnesses his mother's death by gunshot.

The film is about a darts player who suffers from depression which causes him to lose his skill.

BBC reviewer Almar Haflidason stated " It benefits from a far larger budget than its predecessors, but suffers from a story as malnourished as the zombies that are chewing it up ," Haflidason would go on to give the film three out of five stars.

To give an example of how widespread the popular understanding of SAD is, a character suffers from seasonal affective disorder in the Swedish Horror film Marianne.

" More critically, Peter Cowie commented that the film " suffers from its profusion of cultural references and asides ".

As the film opens, they are " on a joy ride ", when their automobile suffers a flat tire in front of a museum.

The film documents Erica's attempts at being single again, where she suffers with confusion, sadness, and rage.

In John Frankenheimer's 1962 film The Manchurian Candidate, the character of Major Bennett Marco ( played by Frank Sinatra ) suffers from a nightmare set in Spring Lake.

The 1992 film Single White Female suggests different aspects of the disorder: the character Hedy suffers from a markedly disturbed sense of identity and, as with the first two films, abandonment leads to drastic measures.

In the ensuing years following the film's release, Stallone acknowledged that the injury Rocky suffers subsequently forcing him to retire, referenced in the film as a potentially lethal form of ' brain damage ', was inaccurate.

Produced for the purpose of raising capital for another film that Borchardt intends to make, the epic Northwestern, Coven suffers from numerous setbacks, including poor financing, a lack of planning, Borchardt's burgeoning alcoholism, and the ineptitude of the friends and family Borchardt hires to staff the production team.

* Montgomery Clift suffers partial paralysis in his face after a car wreck while working on Raintree County ( film ).

The film begins in Brienne-le-Château with youthful Napoleon attending military school where he manages a snowball fight like a military campaign, yet he suffers the insults of other boys.

Splendor in the Grass is a 1961 romantic drama film that tells a story of sexual repression, love, heartbreak, and manic-depression, from which the character Deanie suffers.

His 1996 film The Stendhal Syndrome, in which a policewoman ( played by Argento's daughter, Asia ) who suffers from Stendhal syndrome is trapped by a serial killer in an abandoned warehouse, was the first Italian film to use computer-generated imagery ( CGI ).

The film was also released on Blu-ray on June 4 in the UK by Universal UK Home Video, although it has been reported that the release suffers from defects in the audio track .< ref >

In the film adaptation of Silent Hill, the protagonist's daughter suffers from sleepwalking.

* In Heaven Sword and Dragon Sabre ( along with its various film, television and graphic novel adaptations ), the third novel on the popular Condor Trilogy, the martial artist Xie Xun suffers from an ' endocrine disorder ' that is most likely a pheochromocytoma.

* In the film Insomnia and its American remake, the protagonist suffers from insomnia partially brought on by the midnight sun while investigating a murder north of the Arctic Circle ( Norway in the original, and Alaska in the remake ).

" However Nev Peirce on the BBC's website panned the film, saying " Sadly, Peter Richardson suffers the fate of many satirists ; in trying to mock bad movies, he's simply made a bad movie " The film grossed £ 148, 326 on its opening weekend across 170 screens in the UK