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The Flair of FRED ASTAIRE

Dazzling, effortlessly elegant, Astaire was simply the best. Even to Nureyev he was "music in motion." His personal style was the last word in understated swellegance.

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And his personal life was so extremely low-profile that SARAH GILES had to travel from Los Angeles to Ireland to Vienna to pin down his inner circle and find out what Fred was really like. Among others, Audrey Hepburn, Leslie Caron, Ginger Rogers, Alfred Vanderbilt, Mrs. Jock Whitney, and Astaire's daughter, Ava, talk to her for the first time about the other side of Fred

SARAH GILES

LESLIE CARON(co-star in Daddy Long Legs): He never stopped dancing.

It is a habit in rehearsal halls that when you take a break the pianist goes on doodling. But Fred would start playing with a chair, or with a cane, or a coat that was there—he would doodle. I remember going out for air, and as I came back into the rehearsal room, he was dancing a number with a coat hanger.