As a teenager my father, per his private journal in Spanish, claimed to have had the immense satisfaction of seeing Fred and Adele, appearing in Funy Face! I could never confirm they even WERE in funny face till I saw such on this site. My dad said his sister bought him tickets for the show as a birthday present. I never told this before, since I suspected my father of having remembered wrongly. Yesterday, an old friend of dad's called me up saying he had THE ONLY KNOWN FOOTAGE of the Astaires!
@@MsMeiv I AM NOT CERTAIN AT ALL, alas, that he was ever ACTUALLY in possession of said footage, which would be essentially PRICELESS, if he spoke true, but methinks he told me an old fashioned taradiddle, know what i mean? OR WHERE IS THIS TAPE/ WHY would anyone who HAD it not release it? Makes no sense to me.
PLEASE HEED this piece of fascinating minutia . In the last notes of this piece we hear a very fleeting snippet of "Colonel Bogey's March" made famous in 1957 in David Lean's classic "Bridge on the River Kwai", the tune WHISTLED now so famously by British POW's in Burma, ostensibly, but footage shot in Sri Lanka. I had always assumed till I saw this FRED AND ADELE you tube, that it was "invented" by WW2 Brit POW's, but NOOOOOO! I just checked it and it was written by a Brit officer in 1914!!!!!! Evidently therefore, as I guess, a WW1 song sung in those dreadful trenches. Concerning the Babbit and the Bromide THIS great filmic Fred and Gene Kelly MGM classic number, I've read over and over, that it was the ONLY thing Fred and Gene EVER did together. Kind of a shame, ey wot? Additionally, readers of this post might be interested in knowing that my own folks were world famous ballroom dancers, Veloz and Yolanda, whom appeared on LIFE Magazine cover, oct. 1939 with subtitles "Greatest Dancing Couple", but though Hollywood tried -- Lord how they tried -- ESPECIALLY Louis B. Mayer -- they could NOT fashion my dance specialist parents into a an acting, singing movie couple anywhere near the caliber of "Fred and Ginger", you see, for neither of my folks could sing a lick, neither could either ACT very convincingly, though my dad at least had eradicated his old west side Manhattan, "Dese and dems" -- this the crowning result of MGM's ferociously demanding school of singing and acting, LOL! The only film in which they got speaking parts was "Champagne Waltz" to my knowledge, and it is amusing to hear my Mom, supposedly a Vienese waitress, speaking her her old "Little Italy, Bleeker Street" NYC HEAVY accent. Somewhat risible, though I suspect few audience members knew or cared at the time.
Yes, without doubt, he did CLAIM that, but I wholesomely withhold credence concerning his words without CONFIRMATION. People talk nonsense all the time. I do not believe this man is still alive. I don't know how to contact him at any rate.
@@mr.brooks8913 The man who claims to have the footage was far younger than Astaire, who was born in 1899. Not sure you are following the conversation with care.
these aren't the same lyrics as the one he performed with gene kelly. also, this is from funny face? why is the '57 version of funny face completely different? though I love that film
Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire performed this exact song in Ziegfeld Follies (1946). The only difference in the lyrics was Kelly saying the more familiar "knock wood" in place of "touch wood". As far as I know Astaire and Kelly weren't in any other movies together.
Hollywood would shamelessly take the names of Broadway hits, discard the plot and plunder songbooks for numbers while tossing out originals if they did not fit the new plot and stars. None of the Gershwins's stage musicals made it on to the screen looking anything like the originals. The music at the end of this recording is when Adele and Fred did their celebrated 'runaround' circular move before exiting.
@@esmeephillips5888 Well, do you also note the RATHER peculiar, ever so fleeting few notes from "Colonel Bogy's march," same theme that was made famous by WHISTLING POWS' in "Bridge on the River Qwai"? David Lean's great Oscar-loaded film from around 1957? Now I've seridipidously by accident seen film of surviving Japanese soldiers from THE WAR IN THE PACIFIC that confirmed ENTHUSIASTICALLY that they vividly recalled that filmic WHISTLING as an ACTUAL RREALITY...from a famed Burma British POW camp, I believe. WHAT is the rest of the history of this delightful and slightly mysterious theme? ANYONE happen to know know?
As a teenager my father, per his private journal in Spanish, claimed to have had the immense satisfaction of seeing Fred and Adele, appearing in Funy Face! I could never confirm they even WERE in funny face till I saw such on this site. My dad said his sister bought him tickets for the show as a birthday present. I never told this before, since I suspected my father of having remembered wrongly. Yesterday, an old friend of dad's called me up saying he had THE ONLY KNOWN FOOTAGE of the Astaires!
Hi Guy, has your friend ever released the footage?
@@MsMeiv I AM NOT CERTAIN AT ALL, alas, that he was ever ACTUALLY in possession of said footage, which would be essentially PRICELESS, if he spoke true, but methinks he told me an old fashioned taradiddle, know what i mean? OR WHERE IS THIS TAPE/ WHY would anyone who HAD it not release it? Makes no sense to me.
I love this. Fred sounds so young. Also like this longer version (rather than Gene and Fred’s one).
PLEASE HEED this piece of fascinating minutia . In the last notes of this piece we hear a very fleeting snippet of "Colonel Bogey's March" made famous in 1957 in David Lean's classic "Bridge on the River Kwai", the tune WHISTLED now so famously by British POW's in Burma, ostensibly, but footage shot in Sri Lanka. I had always assumed till I saw this FRED AND ADELE you tube, that it was "invented" by WW2 Brit POW's, but NOOOOOO! I just checked it and it was written by a Brit officer in 1914!!!!!! Evidently therefore, as I guess, a WW1 song sung in those dreadful trenches. Concerning the Babbit and the Bromide THIS great filmic Fred and Gene Kelly MGM classic number, I've read over and over, that it was the ONLY thing Fred and Gene EVER did together. Kind of a shame, ey wot? Additionally, readers of this post might be interested in knowing that my own folks were world famous ballroom dancers, Veloz and Yolanda, whom appeared on LIFE Magazine cover, oct. 1939 with subtitles "Greatest Dancing Couple", but though Hollywood tried -- Lord how they tried -- ESPECIALLY Louis B. Mayer -- they could NOT fashion my dance specialist parents into a an acting, singing movie couple anywhere near the caliber of "Fred and Ginger", you see, for neither of my folks could sing a lick, neither could either ACT very convincingly, though my dad at least had eradicated his old west side Manhattan, "Dese and dems" -- this the crowning result of MGM's ferociously demanding school of singing and acting, LOL! The only film in which they got speaking parts was "Champagne Waltz" to my knowledge, and it is amusing to hear my Mom, supposedly a Vienese waitress, speaking her her old "Little Italy, Bleeker Street" NYC HEAVY accent. Somewhat risible, though I suspect few audience members knew or cared at the time.
Merci... C’est cadeau... well well 🤓🕊🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷
Imagining their life before...
Fred Astaire & Adele Astaire brother & sister!
Where'd you find this treasure!!
My goodness, never heard his voice young.. so cute ; - ;
Guy: Did he mean that he had the only known film footage of the two Astaires dancing? That would be an incredible find if true!
Yes, without doubt, he did CLAIM that, but I wholesomely withhold credence concerning his words without CONFIRMATION. People talk nonsense all the time. I do not believe this man is still alive. I don't know how to contact him at any rate.
@@guyveloz4382 I think he’s dead saying he was born in 1899
@@mr.brooks8913 The man who claims to have the footage was far younger than Astaire, who was born in 1899. Not sure you are following the conversation with care.
guy do you have a footage of funny face??????????
Alas, no. Je regrette! WHAT a FIND that would be, earth-shaking is what it would be.
Well, it's not funny face but here's a bit from a documentary in which you can see fred and adele dancing a bit in rehearsal: watch?v=-KMuKXP7-sM
THANKS!!
these aren't the same lyrics as the one he performed with gene kelly.
also, this is from funny face? why is the '57 version of funny face completely different? though I love that film
This is from the 1927 Broadway production
I'm aware, I just find it interesting because I don't know why they would change it
Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire performed this exact song in Ziegfeld Follies (1946). The only difference in the lyrics was Kelly saying the more familiar "knock wood" in place of "touch wood". As far as I know Astaire and Kelly weren't in any other movies together.
Hollywood would shamelessly take the names of Broadway hits, discard the plot and plunder songbooks for numbers while tossing out originals if they did not fit the new plot and stars. None of the Gershwins's stage musicals made it on to the screen looking anything like the originals.
The music at the end of this recording is when Adele and Fred did their celebrated 'runaround' circular move before exiting.
@@esmeephillips5888 Well, do you also note the RATHER peculiar, ever so fleeting few notes from "Colonel Bogy's march," same theme that was made famous by WHISTLING POWS' in "Bridge on the River Qwai"? David Lean's great Oscar-loaded film from around 1957? Now I've seridipidously by accident seen film of surviving Japanese soldiers from THE WAR IN THE PACIFIC that confirmed ENTHUSIASTICALLY that they vividly recalled that filmic WHISTLING as an ACTUAL RREALITY...from a famed Burma British POW camp, I believe. WHAT is the rest of the history of this delightful and slightly mysterious theme? ANYONE happen to know know?
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