The Fred Astaire musical The Band Wagon inspired Michael Jackson's Smooth Criminal video, and is now streaming on Max.

Stanley Donen, a director of Hollywood musicals who secured an enduring place in cinema history as the filmmaker who captured Fred Astaire dancing on a ceiling and Gene Kelly singing in the rain ...

I never cared for my singing voice.” But Irving Berlin, several of whose songs Mr. Astaire introduced, said, ”I`d rather have Fred Astaire sing my songs than anyone else. . . . He`s just as ...

Gene Kelly in Singing in the Rain and Fred Astaire in Top Hat were essentially airheads. The protagonists of more recent musicals like Wonka or Cats did not exactly reflect Chekhovian tensions.

Sorry, the beloved “Singin’ in the Rain” isn’t the finest of the legendary MGM musicals. For my money, it’s a close second to “The Band Wagon,’’ which ...

Her performance in Two Weeks with Love impressed MGM so much that she landed Singin’ in the Rain. The 1952 movie ... I realized that if it was hard for Fred Astaire, dancing was hard for ...

Stanley Donen, who directed Fred Astaire dancing on the ceiling, Gene Kelly singing in the rain and a host of other sparkling moments from some of Hollywood’s greatest musicals, died on Thursday ...

(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT") FRED ASTAIRE: (Singing) Holding hands at midnight 'neath the starry sky. Nice work if you can get it. And you can get it if you try. Strolling ...

“It’s been circulated for decades that he worked Debbie so hard in Singin’ in the Rain that her feet bled ... in the beloved dance sequence.” “Fred Astaire continued the European ...

But the names and plots aren`t important. What mattered was the music, written by the best composers, and Fred Astaire dancing and singing or just looking debonaire. He could stroll across a room ...