Fred Astaire - Needle In A Haystack

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  • Опубліковано 24 гру 2024

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  • @android82synthwave
    @android82synthwave 9 років тому +26

    All the great composers wanted Fred to sing their songs. His delivery in everything he does is beyond my comprehension. The coolest cat there ever was.

    • @madamzajj980
      @madamzajj980 9 років тому +4

      +MrJonavo I could not agree more. And you're exactly right about the great composers - Irving Berlin etc. - loving to have Fred sing their songs.

    • @esmeephillips5888
      @esmeephillips5888 5 років тому +1

      @@madamzajj980 It helped that he was a close friend of the Gershwins, Berlin and Porter. They wrote with Fred's way of putting over a new song in mind. He turbocharged them.

  • @esmeephillips5888
    @esmeephillips5888 Рік тому +2

    This was the first movie to promote Fred and Ginger as a starring team and to center the plot on their romantic ups and downs. And this blissfully assured turn demonstrates Hermes Pan's vital role as their choreographic interpreter, comically depicting Fred's elegance and frustration.
    It is a simple concept which eschews the elaborate stunts, trick shots and props of Fred's postwar 'sock solos'. Instead it riffs on Astaire's best-dressed-man fame. He arms himself for the quest like a knight about town.
    The valet, Charles Coleman, was an Australian who settled in California and played butlers and manservants ad inf. He does a fine job in support; Fred, always the gentleman, tips his hat to him as he exits.

  • @karlaherbold6625
    @karlaherbold6625 Рік тому +1

    A man getting dressed! Brilliant!

  • @muffincake93
    @muffincake93 16 років тому +9

    I watched this movie for the first time last night on TCM and I loved every minute of it. Fred Astaire is fantastically talented in so many ways and I just adore every Fred and Ginger film!

  • @jinglebts
    @jinglebts 7 років тому +8

    Do you realize that, with just one cut (that I can see), he dances divinely and not only that, does all those "bits of business" as well? Taking off the dressing gown, choosing the tie (and tying it), rejecting the first tie, putting on a tie pin, dancing some more, doing that pirouette, putting on his sports coat, taking a flower and putting it in his lapel, doing a few more pirouettes just because he can, dancing up onto a chair, grabbing his hat and cane from his valet who tossed them to him perfectly,, and then oh so gracefully leaping from the chair ... sigh!

  • @holydiver73
    @holydiver73 2 роки тому +4

    This is my favourite Fred Astaire solo number and has been for years. The song is wonderful and the dance is amazing and getting dressed to go out has never been so brilliantly choreographed.

    • @esmeephillips5888
      @esmeephillips5888 Рік тому +2

      No routine summed up Astaire better: the casual assumption of sartorial elegance to match the grace of his movements; the way an ordinary setup- preparing to go out- is transformed into a dazzling dance; the blithe resolution to overcome the odds against success, in his wry voice as well as his body language. Such a bunch of positivities injects exaltation into the spectator, a massive dose of hope. Fred was never down for long.
      In such short turns he stakes his claim to be the supreme movie star. He leaps over the ninety years that separate us from his time as effortlessly as he jumps over his furniture.
      Fred's times needed hope. So do ours, but in truth everyone always does. Today's films do not provide much hope. That is why the so-called escapist musicals of the past will outlive tawdry, noisy CGI spectacles in the hearts and minds of those who grow up to savor the art which cloaks itself in nonchalance.

  • @MareShoop
    @MareShoop 3 роки тому +4

    I could watch him all day. I just can’t get enough of him💕

  • @Annieooo1
    @Annieooo1 7 років тому +6

    I just love the way he sings and the dance isn't bad either 😂❤️

  • @chomsky88
    @chomsky88 11 років тому +23

    How odd, that's just how I get dressed every morning; except without the grace, beauty, style, artistic interpretation, rhythm and athleticism.

  • @inonemus
    @inonemus  17 років тому +8

    My admiration for Astaire started with Top Hat. Amazing entertainer

    • @MareShoop
      @MareShoop 3 роки тому

      Top Hat 🎩 is the best 💕

  • @daveharrison8286
    @daveharrison8286 3 роки тому +3

    Not only is Astaire his normal excellent self but the valet in this clip is priceless.

    • @rondaleroi
      @rondaleroi Рік тому

      The valet's timing is impeccable. It makes me wonder how many times they had to do this to get it so perfect.

  • @Celluloidwatcher
    @Celluloidwatcher 5 років тому +5

    Currently watching The Gay Divorcee on MOVIES! cable channel. Loved the routine, and the others in that film. Thanks a million for the upload. Happy New Year!!!

  • @cherryberry360
    @cherryberry360 17 років тому +4

    This has always been one of my favourites!! I'm so glad I found it, thanks so much for putting it up!

  • @jinglebts
    @jinglebts 7 років тому +4

    Also, he had more songs written for him than anyone else. Wow.

  • @telligrain
    @telligrain 16 років тому +1

    wow! i love old movies like this my mom is the one that made me watch them when i was tiny and now i love them!! hey look up the bad seed it is a classic! and wait till the end b4 you judge!

  • @cherryberry360
    @cherryberry360 17 років тому +2

    The one that did it for me was Shall We Dance -- it was on TV and I watched it by accident, thinking it was the one with Richard Gere (:P) and it was awesome!

  • @mca1218
    @mca1218 14 років тому +5

    @j67123 Ain't that the truth, LOL?? I don't wear a suit that often, but when I get dressed up, I TRY to dance into my suit coat and effortlessly whip on my necktie, but it never comes out like this!! Fred Astaire was just aces!!

  • @Harlequin1998
    @Harlequin1998 14 років тому +2

    great song, great movie

  • @peterpower3977
    @peterpower3977 11 років тому +4

    I heard it on an add and had to find the original.

  • @MyLovelyDeadFriends
    @MyLovelyDeadFriends 5 років тому +4

    fred is a cutie in a haystack.

  • @omaralyassin101
    @omaralyassin101 11 років тому +3

    Volkswagen advert brought me here!

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  • @telligrain
    @telligrain 16 років тому

    Have you seen Cary Grant ?!?! well they would have done better to clone him.
    :D lol

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