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Marty Schneit, born and bred New Yorker and Historian, traces the legendary Fred Astaire’s seventy year performing career with illustration and film footage.
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Fred Astaire's career began in 1905, when at the age of five, he debuted in vaudeville with his older sister Adele. Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers were in nine films together, including "Flying Down to Rio", "Roberta," "Top Hat," and "Swing Time". Film footage will include Fred Astaire dancing with Ginger Rogers, Eleanor Powell, Rita Hayworth, and Cyd Charisse.
About the presenter:
Marty has lectured at the New York Public Library, JCC, The 92nd Street Y, The Health Outreach Program of New York Presbyterian Hospital, Central Synagogue, Hebrew Home for the Aged at Riverdale, The Ziegfeld Society of New York, the patients at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Hospital in Manhattan, the Lincoln Center Campus of Fordham University. The Jewish Braille Institute has recorded Marty's lectures for their audio magazine and lecture series.
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