“Except for times Fred worked with real professional dancers like Cyd Charisse, it was a twenty five year war.”

—  Fred Astaire

Hermes Pan, Astaire's principal choreographic collaborator, quoted in Davidson, Bill. The Real and the Unreal. New York: Harper and Bros., 1961. p. 186. (M).

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