“I once said that fifty years from now, the only one of today's dancers who will be remembered is Fred Astaire.”
Gene Kelly quoted in Shipman, David. The Great Movie Stars, The Golden Years. Crown Publishers, New York. 1970. pp. 25-29 as referenced in Billman, Larry: Fred Astaire - A Bio-bibliography, Greenwood Press, Connecticut, 1997. ISBN 0-313-29010-5 p. 351.
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American dancer, singer, actor, choreographer and televisio… 1899–1987Related quotes

“As a dancer, I out-Fred the nimblest Astaire.”
P.G. Wodehouse's Bertie Wooster in Joy in the Morning (1947).

Robert Benchley in "Hail to the King!!" The New Yorker, November 29, 1930, pp. 33-36. (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.

Jerome Robbins in Heeley, David, producer and director. Fred Astaire: Puttin' on his Top Hat and Fred Astaire: Change Partners and Dance (two television programs written by John L. Miller), PBS, March 1980. (M).

Mikhail Baryshnikov at the 1978 Kennedy Center Honours for Fred Astaire and George Balanchine, as quoted in Satchell, Tim. Astaire, The Biography. Hutchinson, London. 1987. ISBN 0-09-173736-2 p. 255.

Quoted in "Gene Kelly's Musical Memories"

Variety. Flying Down to Rio, December 26, 1933. (M).

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).

Richard Avedon in Silverman, Stephen M. Dancing on the Ceiling. Knopf, 1996. ISBN 0679414126.