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An Evening with Fred Astaire is a one-hour live television special starring Fred Astaire, broadcast on NBC on October 17, 1958. It was highly successful, winning nine Emmy awards and spawning three further specials, and technically innovative, as it was the first major television show to be recorded on videotape in color.
Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town is a 1970 American stop-motion Christmas television special produced by Rankin/Bass Productions in New York. The film is narrated by Fred Astaire and stars the voices of Mickey Rooney, Keenan Wynn, Robie Lester, Joan Gardner and Paul Frees, as well as an assistant song performance by the Westminster Children's Choir.
In 1970, Rankin-Bass produced Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town, an hour-long animated TV film based on the song, with Fred Astaire narrating the origin of Santa Claus. The same year, the Jackson 5 included the song on their best-selling album Jackson 5 Christmas Album. The Jackson 5 version would chart 50 years later on the Billboard 100 at #33.
Frosty The Snowman (CBS, 1969) Directed by Jules Bass and Arthur Rankin. Written by Romeo Muller. Here, Jimmy Durante (like his cartooned colleagues Burl Ives and Fred Astaire before him) serves ...
This Easter TV special was also Astaire's second time starring in a production about the holiday, following the 1948 MGM musical Easter Parade. This was the third and final Rankin/Bass special about Easter. The first two were Here Comes Peter Cottontail (1971), narrated by Danny Kaye, and The First Easter Rabbit (1976), narrated by Burl Ives.
Pages in category "1958 television specials" ... An Evening with Fred Astaire; F. From All of Us to All of You; H. Hansel and Gretel (1958 TV special) L.
This 2021 special (timed to her album of the same name) included special guests Ariana Grande, Amy Poehler, Melissa McCarthy, and—my particular fave—Leslie Odom Jr. Good music and silly banter ...
Grave of Fred Astaire, at Oakwood Memorial Park Astaire's hand and footprints at Grauman's Chinese Theater On June 24, 1980, at the age of 81, he married a second time. Robyn Smith was 45 years his junior and a jockey who rode for Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt Jr. (she also dated Vanderbilt in the 1970s), [ 59 ] and appeared on the cover of Sports ...