Winning the 1951 Best Picture Oscar and numerous other awards, the film was directed by Vincente Minnelli, featured many tunes of Gershwin, and concluded with an extensive, elaborate dance sequence built around the An American in Paris symphonic poem ( arranged for the film by Johnny Green ), costing $ 500, 000.

Christie has also been parodied on screen, such as in the film Murder by Indecision, which featured the character " Agatha Crispy ".

The film featured an all-star cast that included Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, Geraldine Chaplin, Tony Curtis, and Kim Novak.

The Ashes featured in the film The Final Test, released in 1953, based on a television play by Terence Rattigan.

The song was later featured in the film The Birdcage ( 1996 ) and performed by Robin Williams and Christine Baranski.

This scene has been restored on the " directors cut bootleg edition " DVD and the double disk DVD, which also featured the cinematic version of the film.

* Amicable numbers are featured in the novel The Professor's Beloved Equation by Yoko Ogawa, and in the Japanese film based on it.

The 1989 film UHF featured a " Weird Al " Yankovic parody music video, " Money for Nothing / Beverly Hillbillies *," combining " The Ballad of Jed Clampett " and Dire Straits ' " Money for Nothing.

It repeated this success in the Australian charts and was also featured in the film, Letter to Brezhnev.

The film was admired by Jean-Luc Godard, who featured a clip in his mammoth Histoire ( s ) du cinéma, and Pauline Kael who championed both The Fury and De Palma.

The December 2002 issue of Gear magazine featured a story about technologies and trends that could violate personal privacy moving society closer to a " Big Brother " state and utilised a recreation of the movie poster from the film version of 1984 created by Dallmeierart. com.

In 1986, the film was featured in the syndicated series, the Canned Film Festival and was later featured on the comedy series, Mystery Science Theater 3000, which also featured other Wood films.

An American-Chinese-Hong Kong-Taiwanese co-production, the film was directed by Ang Lee and featured an international cast of ethnic Chinese actors, including Chow Yun-Fat, Michelle Yeoh, Zhang Ziyi, and Chang Chen.

* He is prominently featured in the 2008 film The Black Candle, directed by M. K.

* The 2008 film Hellboy 2: The Golden Army featured movements of Capoeira in the fighting sequences with Abraham Sapien.

The chupacabras has been featured in films such as Scooby-Doo and the Monster of Mexico and in independent film productions including: Chupacabra: Dark Seas, starring John Rhys-Davies, Guns of El Chupacabra, starring Scott Shaw, El Chupacabras and Vuelve el Chupacabras.

The film portrayed the team helping out a " troubled teenaged fan " and featured many members of the Indians organization.

Another early step in the history of computer animation was the 1973 movie Westworld, a science-fiction film about a society in which robots live and work among humans, though the first use of 3D Wireframe imagery was in its sequel, Futureworld ( 1976 ), which featured a computer-generated hand and face created by then University of Utah graduate students Edwin Catmull and Fred Parke.

Some small sense of the noise and power of a cavalry charge can be gained from the 1970 film Waterloo, which featured some 2000 cavalrymen, some of them cossacks.

The following episode, transmitted Monday 3 November, was videotaped in colour but featured black and white film inserts and title sequence.

The 1982 film Blade Runner featured creatures called replicants, bio-engineered or bio-robotic beings.

The musical was adapted into a 1967 film of the same name, which starred Richard Harris as Arthur, and which featured the Castle of Coca, Segovia as a fittingly opulent Camelot.

Introduced by Jack Buchanan, Nanette Fabray, Oscar Levant and Fred Astaire in the 1953 film The Band Wagon

At the age of 19, Fabray made her feature film debut as one of Bette Davis ' ladies-in-waiting in The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex ( 1939 ).

The song is performed a couple of times in the film by Fred Astaire, Jack Buchanan, Nanette Fabray, Oscar Levant, and India Adams ( singing for Cyd Charisse ).

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 the film, Astaire suffers from what Rogers terms an " affliction ": " Every once in a while I suddenly find myself dancing.

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.