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“Mr. Astaire’s writing, like his dancing, is precise and debonair...” (The New Yorker)“...brimming over with fresh and amusing anecdotes...” (New York Times)“...as easy and as effervescent as his own personable way of dancing.” (New York Herald Tribune)
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Product details
Paperback: 386 pages
Publisher: It Books; Reprint edition (August 5, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9780061567568
ISBN-13: 978-0061567568
ASIN: 0061567566
Product Dimensions:
5.3 x 0.9 x 8 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
4.4 out of 5 stars
55 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
#264,333 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
The indefatigable optimist Friedrich Austerlitz (known to the world as Fred Astaire) sounds forth on his life and work in this popular autobiography, which was first published around 1960. You won't hear much about Fred's travails and difficulties -- while filming DADDY LONG LEGS in 1955, co-star Leslie Caron remembers him weeping into a makeup towel over his wife's death -- but none of that here. What's left is breezy, entertaining, but leaves the reader with the feeling he or she has not experienced the real man.
I'm not a super fan of autobiographies. Most seem to me to be a list of " I did this and then I did this" rather than a story of someone's life. I kind of thought that Fred Astaire would have a more entertaining and warm way with telling his story. And he does. Reading this book, "Steps in Time", is like sitting with a friend and recalling all the interesting happenings in his life. Very real and unpretentious, but also a wonderful picture of the life of this very talented man. I've always been a Fred Astaire fan so for me this book was pure enjoyment from beginning to end.
I have always loved Fred Astaire movies. It was great fun to read his perspective on his life. I have read quite a few autobiographies of famous actors and actresses. He alone had something kind to say about everyone. His gracious demeanor comes through in his story.
Now this has details. Most of the industry names Astaire mentions I do not know but I just read past them. Enjoyed the information he gives on the people I do recognize. His humor keeps the book interesting. His love and faithfulness to his wife, Phyllis, is heartwarming and the reader feels his grief when he loses her. Astaire clearly works hard to achieve his lighter than air dancing style but watching him perform never looks labored. Glad I watched many of his movies before reading the book. That made it easier to follow the details he describes.
Fred's way with words, his breezy light soaring style, reminds one of his dancing. This book is Fred-direct: the importance of his personal life, even over career, is paramount. As a read, it's a must for all interested a private man's life in filmed dance. It's completely enjoyable...if not particularly revealing about his art.At the end of the book, Fred mildly mocks the idea of over intellectualizing dance. Other than "maintaining the basic principles of balance and grace", he even questions a commitment to a particular style. He ends his story simply: "I just dance.".That's Fred...but all the intensity, work, and preparation, and in his case, worry, that went into the creation of some of the greatest dance of the century...is sublimated in this wonderful book. Fred hardly even notes all the sweat that went into his art. That's Fred too.In the revealing introduction by the lovable, ever feisty, Ginger Rogers, he acknowledges her special, and highly reciprocal role in his career...and he in hers. And, in fact, as in her autobiography, neither of them were ever highly articulate about their art. Who cares?Today we know them from their films...and their artistry will be available to all the generations ahead. In this, their eternal realm, they were, and are, highly articulate...to say the least. "Steps in Time" and "Ginger: My Story", just whet the appetite to see the films...and in their chosen milieu...which for both of them...and especially for the solo-Fred...in spite of their considerable acting talents, meant one word...PERFORMANCE.
In excerpt cut from final text Fred wrote, that he:"... know more about a lot of things than people might think. I know a hell of a lot more about show business than I'll admit and that goes for many other things such as sports, politics, women, children, critic."Discrete gentleman as usually at the end, but we know that you knew, Freddie, after all we know and love your films and all of you in them :)).
My daughter, a 1940's movie buff, said that this was the best Fred Astaire book that she's ever read! She was sad when she had turned the last page.
What a lively and lovely book. That wonderful dancer who had an amazing career. Had a fancy and talented sister. What a couple!
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