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Also from the Homeless Brother album, " Wonderful Baby " was a number 1 on the AOR chart in 1975 and was later recorded by Fred Astaire.
Musical stars such as Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers were among the most popular and highly respected personalities in Hollywood during the classical era ; the Fred and Ginger pairing was particularly successful, resulting in a number of classic films, such as Top Hat ( 1935 ), Swing Time ( 1936 ) and Shall We Dance ( 1937 ).
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.
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.
Both before and immediately after her dancing and acting partnership with Fred Astaire ended, Rogers starred in a number of successful dramas and comedies.
When time approached for the shooting of a number, Astaire would rehearse for another two weeks and record the singing and music.
Astaire also co-introduced a number of song classics via song duets with his partners.
Astaire was a songwriter of note himself, with " I'm Building Up to an Awful Letdown " ( written with lyricist Johnny Mercer ) reaching number four in the Hit Parade of 1936.
Oakwood Memorial Park Cemetery in Chatsworth is the final resting place of a number of Hollywood stars, including Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Oscar winner Gloria Grahame, and silent film actress and director Grace Cunard.
This image is seen briefly in black-and-white at the very beginning of the opening title sequence, during the " Funny Face " musical number which takes place in a darkroom, and when Dick ( Astaire ) presents it to Maggie ( Thompson ).
Hamilton appeared in the March Milastaire number in the film You'll Never Get Rich ( 1941 ) as part of the backing group supporting Fred Astaire, and performed on the soundtrack of the Bing Crosby / Bob Hope film Road to Bali.
She also appeared in a number of films, such as Stop Flirting with Fred Astaire, Cure for Love, and Beat Girl with Oliver Reed in 1960.
Judy Garland as Hannah Brown and Fred Astaire as Don Hewes in the finaleThe couple take part in a variety show, with a solo by Don (" Steppin ' Out With My Baby ") and then comes the most famous musical number in the film (" A Couple of Swells "), in which Don and Hannah play a pair of street urchins with vivid imaginations.
( Astaire would " retire " several more times over the next decade, but he would also go on to make a number of additional classic musicals in between retirements.
Wilson initially ascribed opposition from the media to the list as " antisemitism " because of the extraordinary number of Jews who received honours: Delfont, Grade, Weidenfeld, Astaire, Miller, Kagan and the Prime Minister's doctor Joe Stone who received a peerage were all Jews, and Wilson was a well known philosemite.
The short then proceeds to showcase a large number of Hollywood stars in the form of caricatures, including Katharine Hepburn ( as a horse named Miss Heartburn ), Jean Harlow, Bette Davis, Joe E. Brown, Hugh Herbert, W. C. Fields, Clark Gable, Groucho and Harpo Marx, Johnny Weissmuller, Mae West, Lionel and John Barrymore, Laurel and Hardy, Edward G. Robinson, Fred Astaire, and George Raft.
Fred Astaire once told the brothers that the " Jumpin ' Jive " dance number in Stormy Weather was the greatest movie musical sequence he had ever seen.
Fred Astaire told the brothers that their dazzling footwork, leaps and splits in the Jumpin ’ Jive dance in Stormy Weather ( 1943 ) produced the greatest movie musical number he had ever seen.
In the alternate take, Astaire wears informal clothes ; the studio requested the number be reshot in formal dress.
The film featured Fabray, Astaire, and Buchanan performing the classic musical number " Triplets ", which was included in That's Entertainment Part II.
Ken performed a tribute to the classic Fred Astaire number " One for My Baby " and duet with Ball for a rendition of " Lucy's Back in Town ".
In the number " Bojangles of Harlem " from Swing Time ( 1936 ) Astaire dresses in blackface as the Sportin ' Life character and dances in the style of Sublett while ostensibly paying tribute to Bill Robinson.
" That same night, Bubbles mentioned that Astaire had brought him into the rehearsal hall to work on " Bojangles of Harlem " and John's chops are right there in the number.

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For Tom Horn, it turned out, had a number of rancher and cowboy witnesses ready and willing to swear with straight faces that he had been in Bates Hole the day of the killing.
Die Frist ist um, und wiederum verstrichen sind sieben Jahr, the Maestro quoted The Flying Dutchman, as he told of his career and wanderings, explaining that the number seven had significantly recurred in his life several times.
If in any one calculation Ptolemy had had to invoke 83 epicycles all at once, while Copernicus never required more than one third this number, then ( in the sense obvious to Margenau ) Ptolemaic astronomy would be simpler than Copernican.
Fulton was a very close friend of Jackson, and had been his private secretary for a number of years in the old days.
The editorial was based on a news association dispatch which said that the telegraphers had secured an agreement whereby they were guaranteed 40 hours' pay per week whether they worked or not and that a reduction in their number was limited to 2 per cent per year.
People who take us for suckers are like the Westerner who had on exhibit his superior marksmanship in the form of a number of bull's-eye achievements.
`` We've had any number of calls about you.
The ledger was full of most precise information: date of laying, length of incubation period, number of chick reaching the first week, second week, fifth week, weight of hen, size of rooster's wattles and so on, all scrawled out in a hand that looked more Chinese than English, the most jagged and sprawling Alex had ever seen.
In addition, many of the hard-surface cleaners used for walls and woodwork had their genesis in trisodium orthophosphate, which is still the major ingredient of a number of such products.
Essentially this imposed two conditions: First, international law had to recognize and be compatible with an international political system in which a number of states were competitive, suspicious, and opportunistic in their political alignments with one another ; ;
The sheriff and District Attorney Mills hastily swore out a number of warrants against men who had been riding about armed, according to signed statements by Chavez and Dr. I. P. George, and ordered Deputy Barney Clark of Raton to rescue the posseman.
Even though we did not see many of your faces, it appears now quite evident that a considerable number of your profession heard, from those whom we had the fortune to encounter, that we had been in your midst.
We had looked forward to what we hoped to be our first informal meeting with a number of Moscow's artists.
Such understanding helps to explain why one matron celebrating thirty-five years of married life could declare with some pride that her husband had `` never seen her entirely naked '', while another woman, boasting an equal number of years of married life, is proud of having `` shared the nudist way of life -- the really free, natural nude life -- for most of that period ''.
`` But when I arrived and recognised a number of notorious characters I had thrown into the detective bureau basement half a dozen times, I knew I had been framed, and withdrew almost at once ''.
At last count, sixteen former Rhodes Scholars ( see box on page 13 ) had been appointed to the Administration, second in number only to its Harvard graduates.
By 1907 the number of undergraduates had risen to 1,107.
Moreover, prudence alone would indicate that, unless the local customs are already ready to fall when pushed, the results of direct economic action everywhere upon national chain stores will likely be simply to give undue advantage to local and state stores which conform to these customs, leading to greater decentralization and local autonomy within the company, or even ( as the final self-defeat of an unjust application of economic pressure to correct injustice ) to its going out of business in certain sections of the country ( as, for that matter, the Quakers, who once had many meetings in the pre-Civil War South, largely went out of business in that part of the country over the slavery issue, never to recover a large number of southern adherents ).
He had written out the license number of his car but had transposed the last two figures, an old dodge which is still good.
He also reminded himself that he had an unusual number of possibilities.

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