Movie Musicals Came Into Their Own In The 1950s. But Fred Astaire Was On The Outside Looking In

Astaire’s fate in the early fifties was something one suspects he’d never accounted for: his age was beginning to show. Of course, this was a time when elderly men still courted young women on-screen with stunning regularity, and had Astaire been a normal romantic lead, this might not have been a problem. But he was a dancer.

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