I’ve often wondered why the musical is no longer in style, especially considering how popular music and dance continue to be. Is it the format that no longer interests audiences, or is much of today’s ...

WHEN there’s a new film involving Fred Astaire, Brunswick seems to assemble Mr. Astaire, Johnny Green, a piano, an orchestra, and then turns out a resume of the score. Comes “Swing Time, ” comes a set ...

As the star of cherished Hollywood song-and-dance movies such as Top Hat and The Band Wagon, Fred Astaire appeared to live in ...

It was the Great Depression and movie goers flocked to theaters just to get a few hours of escapism, which is exactly what they got on December 29, 1933 with what turned out to be the very beginning ...

Astaire and Rogers by Edward Gallafent Columbia University Press, 256 pp., $24.95 THE PLACE of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers as the American dance couple, perhaps even the American romantic couple, ...