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Qui était Fred Astaire?<end_of_turn>
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The name of Fred Astaire is linked to the aesthetics of the RKO film company, although he worked from 1940 for other companies; as for Gene Kelly, he is associated with MGM. RKO musicals with Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, such as Happy Divorcee (1934) and Top Hat (1935), directed by Mark Sandrich, or On the Wings of Dance by George Stevens ( 1936), retain the backstage intrigues that characterized theatrical musicals of this era.

Most of the time, it is a troupe of dancers who prepare a show put on at the end of the story. We find this indestructible pattern until Richard Attenborough's Chorus Line (1985). However, Fred Astaire succeeds much better than his predecessors and contemporaries in finding a balance and, even more, a thematic connection between the story told and the musical and dance passages, which he directs himself.

Rather than outdoing it quantitatively on the spectacular numbers, Astaire relies on solos and love duets in pas de deux, with an aristocratic humor which gives a more intimate tone to his fables. What makes his character rich and original is that he expresses himself directly through dance figures and body expression, leaving the dialogues a fairly secondary function.

In almost all of his films, Fred Astaire plays his own role: he embodies the cinematic dancer, he creates the type, and the professional activity that we try to attribute to him in certain scenarios fools no one (the photographer of Funny face, Amanda's psychiatrist, the impresario of The Beauty of Moscow). The second trend in musical comedy of the 1930s is represented by the collective choreographies of Busby Berkeley: he began in 1930 with Whoopee, but his most representative films are the famous 42nd Street (1933) and even more so the series of Searchers of gold (from 1933, 1935 and 1937).

His last film was the 1981 adaptation of Peter Straub's novel Ghost Story.

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