THE COMPLETE ASTAIRE COLLECTION

For two years I have worked on a Fred Astaire project that I finally finished today. I call it The Complete Astaire Collection, a tribute video I put together from clips from every single dance number he did for the big screen between 1933 and 1968, and they’re presented in chronological order. The music is provided by Astaire’s second biggest fan, Michael Jackson. After an almost 30-year-career on the stage, Fred Astaire made his film debut with Dancing Lady in 1933, introduced by Clark Gable and dancing his first routine with Joan Crawford, who took a cast off a broken ankle for a day just so she could dance with him. Watch him as he dances his way through the decades, in top hat and tails, with rolled-up sleeves and an old tie around his waist, or that one time he wore blue denim jeans. Dancing over chairs and tables, gliding over the ceiling or skidding around on his knees, on top of a roof or under a gazebo in the rain, dancing as a sailor or a soldier, a shoemaker or a king, a fake Russian or a g