An Unlikely Hunk ; Books with an Over-Large Head and Thinning Hair, Fred Astaire Was Swooned Over by Millions, Says Richard Edmon

Birmingham Post › January 30, 2009

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Fred Astaire by Joseph Epstein (Yale: pounds 14.99)

Was there ever anybody who represented suavity and charm more completely than Fred Astaire?

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An Unlikely Hunk ; Books with an Over-Large Head and Thinning Hair, Fred Astaire Was Swooned Over by Millions, Says Richard Edmon

There are few arguments about Astaire's sublime style and the kind of dancing which, in the thirties, made Top Hat, Flying Down to Rio or Roberta movies which were in a class of their own and have never been forgot...

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