“You're the nimble tread/Of the feet of Fred Astaire”
from Cole Porter's lyric to "You're the Top".
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“As a dancer, I out-Fred the nimblest Astaire.”
P.G. Wodehouse's Bertie Wooster in Joy in the Morning (1947).
“A: Nobody really. Well, actually, Fred Astaire.”
Stephen Sondheim in an interview with David Patrick Stearns, Classical Music Critic, The Philadelphia Inquirer, February 19, 2009 https://archive.is/20130630031503/www.philly.com/inquirer/magazine/20090219_An_upbeat_Sondheim__offering_answers.html?viewAll=y
“Fred Astaire represented the aristocracy, I represented the proletariat.”
Quoted in Vaudeville Old and New, Frank Cullen, Florence Hackman, Donald McNeilly (2004) http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=XFnfnKg6BcAC&pg=PA623&lpg=PA623&dq=%22Fred+Astaire+represented+the+aristocracy,+I+represented+the+proletariat.%22&source=bl&ots=5uoGqPw6x4&sig=YkykWG5pcdAalk3jOpgoWqVYxhQ&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Znv_Tqr4CYqy8QPJxfydAg&ved=0CDUQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=%22Fred%20Astaire%20represented%20the%20aristocracy%2C%20I%20represented%20the%20proletariat.%22&f=false
“I can sing as well as Fred Astaire can act.”
Attributed to Reynolds in: Colin Jarman (1993). The Book of Poisonous Quotes. p. 129
“(Cary Grant) is, along with Fred Astaire, the best-dressed actor in American movies”
Benjamin Schwarz in " Becoming Cary Grant http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2007/01/becoming-cary-grant/5548/" The Atlantic, January/February 2007
“Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, except backwards and in high heels.”
The line originated in a 1982 Frank and Ernest cartoon ( image http://www.reelclassics.com/Actresses/Ginger/ginger-article2.htm) by Bob Thaves as "Sure he was great, but don't forget that Ginger Rogers did everything he did, ...backwards and in high heels." On the internet and in many publications the line is incorrectly attributed to Faith Whittlesey (see [List of Websites That Have Attributed Thaves' Line to Whittlesey, http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rls=en-us&num=100&newwindow=1&q=%22Faith+Whittlesey%22+%22Ginger+Rogers%22+-incorrect+-incorrectly+-%22Bob+Thaves%22+-%22Ann+Richards%22&aq=f&oq=&aqi=, 2009-07-25, Google]) or Rogers herself. Ann Richards popularized the line by using it in a speech but she credits Linda Ellerbee with giving her the line, and Ellerbee credits an anonymous passenger on an airplane with giving her the line (see [Keyes, Ralph (2006), The Quote Verifier: Who Said What, Where, and When, St. Martin's Griffin, 77, 0312340044]). The official Ginger Rogers website http://www.gingerrogers.com/about/quotes.html attributes the line to Thaves.
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From P.G. Wodehouse's Bachelors Anonymous (1973).
“I guess the only jewels of my life were the pictures I made with Fred Astaire.”
Rita Hayworth in Hallowell, John. "Rita Hayworth: Don't Put the Blame on Me, Boys." New York Times October 25, 1970, sec. 2, pp. 15, 38. (M).
“As a dancer he stands alone, and no singer knows his way around a song like Fred Astaire.”
Irving Berlin, quoted in Puttin' on the Ritz, BBC Programme Acquisition, 1999.