Mr. Astaire is the nearest approach we are ever likely to have to a human Mickey Mouse; he might have been drawn by Mr. Walt Disney, with his quick physical wit, his incredible agility. He belongs to a fantasy world almost as free as Mickey's from the law of Gravity

I don't think that I will plunge the nation into war by stating that Fred Astaire is the greatest tap-dancer in the world

A very distinguished colleague began his criticism of this show by asking what is Mr Astaire's secret. May I suggest that the solution hangs on a little word o…

It was on tiny wheels with a mount for the camera that put the lens about two feet above the ground. On it rode the camera operator and the assistant who chang…

I don't make love by kissing, I make love by dancing.

There never was a greater perfectionist, there never was, and never will be, a better dancer, and I never knew anybody more kind, more considerate, or more com…

All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.