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That’s Fred Astaire, back on his feet in Hollywood, worrying blissfully, as he takes a second fling at fame
BY HERB HOWE
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LiEGS are regarded — by bankers as well as by boulevardiers— as giltedged securities, particularly when attached to wiiming horses and Fred Astaire.
Mr. Astaire’s legs were insured for a million dollars by RKO fifteen years ago. They paid off in the first picture.
Today Fred’s are not the only winsome legs in the Astaire compound. His race horse Triplicate legged in with $240,000 so far and has a good chance for much more. But Trip has foxu" legs. With four legs Mr. Astaire could pull the box office out of the current slump. In fact, he is doing it with two, now that he has retired from retirement and is back into his size eight dancing shoes.
Debonair as on the night he dazzled Broadway at seventeen, Mr. Astaire is entering upon his second life. That’s what he says.
Mr. Astaire passed away a couple of years' ago, but not quietly. The uproar in press and fan mail threw him from his hier.
His rebirth was jubilated under the appropriate title of “Easter Parade,” and soon there will be dancing in the streets all over the world as teenage tots and elder blooms do the Astaire Swing Trot which he though!; up in purgatory between his two lives.
It was purgatory, says the refugee from retire (Continued on page 95)
The Astaires (here with Randy Scott) built a house for ^acuig cups
His own meanest critic, he once labelled his performance “grotescpie!”
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