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Fred Astaire Jr. Wiki Biography

Fred Astaire was born as Frederic Austerlitz, Jr. on the 10th May 1899, in Omaha, Nebraska USA, of Austrian-Jewish (father) and German-Jewish (mother) descent, and He was a dancer, singer, and actor, who was probably best recognized for performing in a number of musicals, alongside Ginger Rogers. He was named as the 5th Greatest Male Star of All time by the American Film Institute. His career was active from 1904 to 1981. He passed away in 1987.

So, have you ever wondered how rich Fred Astaire was? According to authoritative sources, it was estimated that the total size of Fred’s net worth was over $10 million, accumulated through his successful career in the entertainment industry.

Fred Astaire was born to Johanna and Frederic Austerlitz, who worked at the Storz Brewing Company; he was the younger brother of Adele Astaire. When he was a child, Fred began to take classes in dancing alongside his sister, and playing piano and clarinet. In 1905 the family moved to New York City, where both of the children attended the Alviene Master School of the Theatre and Academy of Cultural Arts.

In no time came their first act “Juvenile Artists Presenting an Electric Musical Toe-Dancing Novelty”, for which they gained enormous popularity – the local newspaper named it “the greatest child act in vaudeville”. Afterwards, they appeared in the 1915 film “Fanchon, The Cricket” as performers, and two years later began performing on Broadway, debuting in “Over The Top”, which added a considerable amount to his net worth. In the following year, he appeared together with his sister in “The Passing Show Of 1918”, and later during the 1920s, they performed in other productions, including “The Bunch And Judy” (1922), and “Funny Face” (1927). His net worth was now established.

However, Fred and Adele split up in 1932 when she married, and he focused on his solo career, moving to Hollywood and signing with RKO Radio Pictures. He made his debut dancing with Joan Crawford in the musical film “Dancing Lady” (1933), since when his career only went upwards, as well as his net worth, and he soon began to perform with his new partner Ginger Rogers, with whom he appeared in nine RKO pictures, such as “The Gay Divorcee” (1934), “Swing Time” (1936), and “The Story Of Vernon And Irene Castle” (1939) – six of them became the biggest moneymakers; however, after that he left RKO.

In the next decade, Fred’s first performance came in the film “Broadway Melody Of 1940”, with dancing partner Eleanor Powell. In the same year, he appeared with Paulette Goddard in “Second Chorus”, and he was also a performer in other film titles, such as “Holiday Inn” (1942) starring alongside Bing Crosby, and “Blue Skies” (1946), all of which increased his net worth by a large margin. Then he surprisingly announced his retirement, but during 1947 he established the Fred Astaire Dance Studios, which he sold in 1966. Not long ago after his ‘retirement’, Fred returned to the big screen, appearing alongside Ann Miller, Judy Garland and Peter Lawford in “Easter Parade” (1948), and “The Barkleys Of Broadway” (1949).

During the 1950s, he continued to line up success after success, performing with Jane Powell in “Royal Wedding” (1951), and a year later with Vera-Ellen in “The Belle Of New York”. In 1953 Fred appeared in “The Band Wagon”, directed by Vincente Minnelli, which became one the greatest musicals of all time. Two years later, he was cast in “Daddy Long Legs”, and in 1957, he performed in “Funny Face” alongside such stars as Kay Thompson and Audrey Hepburn, all of which contributed to his wealth.

To speak further of his career, in 1958 his new dancing partner became Barrie Chase, with whom he performed in the musical “An Evening With Fred Astaire” (1958), which won nine Emmy Awards, after which Fred appeared in several non-dancing roles in such TV and film titles as “The Notorious Landlady” (1962), “Bob Hope Presents The Chrysler Theatre” and “Dr. Kildare” (1965). In 1968 he made his last musical appearance in the film “Finian’s Rainbow”, directed by Francis Ford Coppola.

In the next decade, Fred continued to appear in film and TV titles as an actor, increasing further his net worth. He was cast as Harlee Claiborne in “The Towering Inferno” (1974), played Dr. Seamus Scully in “The Purple Taxi” (1977), and had the role of Ricky Hawthorne in “Ghost Story” (1981).

Thanks to his accomplishments, Fred earned a number of recognitions and awards, including the 1950 Honorary Academy Award, as well as three Golden Globe Awards, three Primetime Emmy Awards, and the Cecil B. DeMille Award. He also earned a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1960.

Regarding his personal life, Fred Astaire was married to Robyn Smith from 1980 until his death. Previously, he was in marriage with Phyllis Livingston Potter (1933-1954), with whom he had two children. In free time, he enjoyed horse racing – his horse won the 1946 Hollywood Gold Cup – and all types of physical activity, including skateboarding, even into his ‘80s. He passed away from pneumonia at the age of 88 on the 22nd June 1987 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

IMDB Wikipedia “Bob Hope Presents The Chrysler Theatre” “Dancing with the Stars” (2006) “Dr. Kildare” (1965) “Finian’s Rainbow” “The Purple Taxi” (1977) ”Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life” (2016) $10 million 1.75 m 1.93 1899 1899 Omaha 1899-05-10 1936 1936-1-21 1987 (aged 88) Los Angeles 2014 91.63 Academy Awards – Best Actor in a Supporting Role (1975) Academy of Cultural Arts Actor Adele Astaire Alviene Master School of the Theatre American Angels in America (2003) Ann Miller Aquarius Audrey Hepburn Ava Astaire-McKenzie BAFTA Film Award (1976) Bing Crosby California Camarillo Cecil B. DeMille Award Dancer documentary) Eleanor Powel Fred Astaire Jr. Fred Astaire Net Worth Frederic Austerlitz Funny Face (1957) Ghost Story (1981) Ginger Rogers Golden Apple Awards Golden Globe Awards Gregory Porter’s Popular Voices (2017) Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical Treasure (2008 Hollywood Walk Of Fame (1960) Honorary Academy Award (1950) January 21 Joan Crawford Johanna Austerlitz Judy Garland and Peter Lawford June 22 Kay Thompson Laurel Awards – Top Male Musical Performance (1958) Life Achievement Award (1981) May 10 Nebraska OFTA Film Hall of Fame (2008) Omaha On the Beach (1959) Paulette Goddard Phyllis Potter m. 1933–1954 Primetime Emmy Awards Robyn Smith m. 1980–1987 The Notorious Landlady (1962) The Towering Inferno (1974) Three Little Words (1950) U.S. United States

Fred Astaire Jr. Quick Info

Fred Astaire Jr. Trademarks

1. Ending an active dance sequence by calmly strolling off
2. His unique dancing
3. Often wore top hat and tails

Fred Astaire Jr. Quotes

• Ginger was brilliantly effective. She made everything work for her. Actually she made everything work very fine for both of us and she deserves most of the credit for our success.
• Excuse me, I must say Ginger was certainly the one. You know, the most effective partner I had. Everyone knows. That was a whole other thing that we did…I just want to pay a tribute to Ginger because we did so many pictures together and believe me it was a value to have that girl…she had it. She was just great!
• All the girls I ever danced with thought they couldn’t do it. So they always cried. All except Ginger. No, no, Ginger never cried.
• I’m just a hoofer with a spare set of tails.
• [on joining the cast of The Towering Inferno (1974)] It’s a fun picture to make – all fire and water.
• (on dancing partner Cyd Charisse) When you dance with her, you stay danced.
• [on Gene Kelly] You know, that Kelly, he’s just terrific. That’s all there is to it. He dances like crazy, he directs like crazy. I adore this guy. I really am crazy about his work.
• [on actress/dancer Leslie Caron] A ballet dancer really, but technically good. I called her the sergeant major.
• [on Judy Garland] She was just simply wonderful. She danced beautifully, learned beautifully. She was very adept at whatever she did. Really in fine form. We were all set to do another picture together, but she got sick and that was the end of that.
• [on Rita Hayworth] A great dancer but a different style to me.
• [on tap dancer Eleanor Powell] Eleanor was an out-and-out dancer. She danced like a man. She slammed the floor and did it great and that’s fine and suddenly she’s on her toes in the ballet sequence — it did look kinda funny.
• [on Ginger Rogers] She may have faked a little, but we knew we had a good thing going.
• [on John Travolta in Saturday Night Fever (1977)] He’s not a dancer. What he did in those dance scenes was very attractive but he is basically not a dancer. I was dancing like that years ago, you know. Disco is just jitterbug.
• I have no desire to prove anything by it [dancing]. I never used it as an outlet or as a means of expressing myself. I just dance.
• I don’t want to be the oldest performer in captivity… I don’t want to look like a little old man dancing out there.
• [to Jack Lemmon] You’re at a level where you can only afford one mistake. The higher up you go, the more mistakes you’re allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of them, it’s considered to be your style.
• Dancing is a sweat job.
• I suppose I made it look easy, but gee whiz, did I work and worry.
• [on his screen partnership with Ginger Rogers] Ginger was brilliantly effective. She made everything work for her. Actually, she made things very fine for the both of us and she deserves most of the credit for our success.
• It’s nice that all the composers have said that nobody interprets a lyric like Fred Astaire. But when it comes to selling records I was never worth anything particularly except as a collector’s item.
• The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.
• People think I was born in top hat and tails.
• I had some ballet training but didn’t like it. It was like a game to me.
• Of course, [Ginger Rogers] was able to accomplish sex through dance. We told more through our movements instead of the big clinch. We did it all in the dance.
• [on modern movies] They tend to overdo the vulgarity. I’m not embarrassed by the language itself, but it’s embarrassing to be listening to it, sitting next to perfect strangers.
• I have never had anything that I can remember in the business – and that includes all the movies and the stage shows and everything – that I didn’t enjoy. I didn’t like some of the small-time vaudeville, because we weren’t going on and getting better. Aside from that, I didn’t dislike anything.

Fred Astaire Jr. Important Facts

• He was stepfather to Eliphalet IV (known as Peter), the son of his first wife, Phyllis, and her first husband, Eliphalet Nott Potter III.
• First wife Phyllis Potter (née Phyllis Livingston Baker) passed away from lung cancer at age 46 while Astaire was filming Daddy Long Legs (1955).
• Died 18 years to the day after his Easter Parade (1948) co-star, Judy Garland. Garland on June 22, 1969 and Astaire on June 22, 1987.
• Became a father for the second time at age 42 when his first wife Phyllis Potter gave birth to their daughter Ava Astaire-McKenzie on March 28, 1942.
• Became a father for the first time at age 36 when his first wife Phyllis Potter gave birth to their son Fred Astaire Jr. on January 21, 1936.
• He was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6756 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on February 8, 1960.
• He was honored as Turner Classic Movies Star of the Month. [December 2013]
• Universal Pictures offered Astaire the chance to direct the musical comedy Up in Central Park (1948), but he declined. William A. Seiter directed instead.
• Politically, Astaire was a conservative and a lifelong Republican Party supporter, though he never made his political views publicly known. Along with Bing Crosby, George Murphy, Ginger Rogers and others, he was a charter (founding) member of the Hollywood Republican Committee.
• He was the very first name entered on IMDB (nm0000001).
• Joining ASCAP in 1942, he collaborated with Johnny Mercer and Gladys Shelly. His popular song compositions include “I’m Building Up to an Awful Let-Down”, “Blue Without You”, “If Swing Goes, I Go Too”, “Just Like Taking Candy from a Baby”, “Just One More Dance, Madame”, “I’ll Never Let You Go”, “Oh, My Achin’ Back” and “Sweet Sorrow”.
• Founder of Ava Records, named for his daughter, Ava Astaire-McKenzie.
• When Ginger Rogers received a Kennedy Center Honor in 1992, Robyn Smith, widow of Fred Astaire, withheld all rights to clips of Rogers’ scenes with Astaire, demanding payment. The Kennedy Center refused and Rogers received her honor without the retrospective show.
• Profiled in “American Classic Screen Interviews” (Scarecrow Press) (2010).
• Owned Blue Valley Ranch, a Thoroughbred horse breeding farm in the San Fernando Valley. He maintained a racing stable of four or five horses which competed at racetracks in California. His most famous racehorse was Triplicate, winner of the 1946 Hollywood Gold Cup.
• Tony Martin, the husband of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer star/dancer Cyd Charisse, said he could tell who she had been dancing with that day on the set. If she came home covered with bruises on her, it was the very physically-demanding Gene Kelly, if not it was the smooth and agile Fred Astaire.
• For Daddy Long Legs (1955), Leslie Caron told Fred that she wanted to create her own costumes for the film. Fred Astaire told her: “Okay, but no feathers, please”, recalling the troubles he had with one of Ginger Rogers’ elaborate ostrich feathered gowns in a dance from Top Hat (1935). A feather broke loose from Ginger Rogers’ dress and stubbornly floated in mid air around Astaire’s face. The episode was recreated to hilarious effect in a scene from Easter Parade (1948) in which Fred Astaire danced with a clumsy, comical dancer portrayed by Judy Garland.
• Inducted into the International Tap Dance Hall of Fame in 2002 (inaugural class).
• Biography in: “The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives”. Volume Two, 1986-1990, pages 36-38. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1999.
• Fred’s father was born in Austria. Fred’s paternal grandparents, Salomon Stefan Austerlitz and Lucie Hellerová, were Czech Jews who had converted to Catholicism. Fred’s mother was born in Nebraska, to David Geilus and Wilhelmine Klaatke, Lutheran immigrants from Germany.
• Good friends with actress Carol Lynley.
• Wore his trademark top hat and tails in his very first movie appearance, Dancing Lady (1933).
• While all music and songs were known to be dubbed (recorded before filming), his tap dancing was dubbed also. He “over-dubbed” his taps – recording them live as he danced to the previously recorded taps.
• Aside from starring in the film Funny Face (1957), he also starred in the original 1927 Broadway version of the George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin musical “Funny Face”. Although he was the male lead in the show, he did not play the same character he does in the film, and the storyline of the original stage musical was entirely different from the one in the film. Both play and film used many of the same songs. The studio may have felt that the original plot of “Funny Face” could not be properly adapted into a movie as it was an “ensemble” musical with people dropping out and parts changing all the time. Apparently the studio bought the rights to the title just so they could use the song. The plot of this movie is actually that of the unsuccessful Broadway musical “Wedding Bells” by Leonard Gershe. His character in the film is based on photographer Richard Avedon, who in fact, set up most of the photography shown in the film. The soggy Paris weather played havoc with the shooting of the wedding dress dance scene. Both Astaire and Audrey Hepburn were continually slipping in the muddy and slippery grass.
• Although he spent most of his childhood touring on the vaudeville circuit, he would occasionally settle down with his family and their neighbors and friends, who were almost all families of Austrian immigrants.
• He and Ginger Rogers appeared in 10 movies together: Flying Down to Rio (1933), The Gay Divorcee (1934), Roberta (1935), Top Hat (1935), Follow the Fleet (1936), Swing Time (1936), Shall We Dance (1937), Carefree (1938), The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle (1939) and The Barkleys of Broadway (1949).
• Is one of the many movie stars mentioned in Madonna’s song “Vogue”
• Born only 18 months after his sister Adele Astaire.
• Named the #5 Greatest Actor on the 50 Greatest Screen Legends by the American Film Institute.
• He was voted the 23rd Greatest Movie Star of All Time by Premiere magazine.
• Famously wore a necktie around his waist instead of a belt, an affectation he picked up from his friendship with actor Douglas Fairbanks but often mistakenly attributed to Astaire alone.
• His legs were insured for one million dollars.
• He was voted the 19th Greatest Movie Star of all time by Entertainment Weekly.
• In 2000, the following album was released as a tribute to him: “Let Yourself Go: Celebrating Fred Astaire”. All songs were performed by Stacey Kent.
• Made a cameo appearance in John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s film Imagine (1972), escorting Yoko through a doorway; after one successful take, he asked to try again, believing he could do a better job.
• Don McLean’s song “Wonderful Baby” was written with Astaire in mind; Astaire reportedly loved the song, and recorded it for an album.
• He was one of the first Kennedy Center Honorees in 1978.
• Appears on the cover of The Beatles’ “Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” album.
• The only time he and Gene Kelly ever danced together on screen (other than the linking-segments in the 1976 compilation movie, That’s Entertainment, Part II (1976)) was in one routine, titled “The Babbitt and the Bromide” in the 1946 movie Ziegfeld Follies (1945).
• Born at 9:16pm-CST
• After Blue Skies (1946), New York’s Paramount Theater generated a petition of 10,000 names to persuade him to come out of retirement.
• First met lifelong best friend Irving Berlin on the set of Top Hat (1935).
• Astaire disguised his very large hands by curling his middle two fingers while dancing.
• The evaluation of Astaire’s first screen test: “Can’t act. Can’t sing. Balding. Can dance a little.”
• Following his death, he was interred at Oakwood Memorial Park in Chatsworth, California, where longtime dancing partner, Ginger Rogers, is located.
• Ranked #73 in Empire (UK) magazine’s “The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time” list. [October 1997]

Fred Astaire Jr. Filmography

Fred Astaire Jr. Awards