It's Fred Astaire's birthday - here's an excellent clip of him and Ginger Rogers

Today is the 114th anniversary of the birth of the legendary American dancer extraordinaire, Fred Astaire (1899-1987), in Omaha, Nebraska. Born Fred Austerlitz, Astaire made his vaudeville debut with his sister, Adele, at the age of five, and by the 1920s, they were dancing on Broadway and in London. After Adele's marriage in 1932, his search for a new partner led him to Hollywood, where he teamed up with Ginger Rogers for ten classic song-and-dance films, including Top Hat (1935) and Shall We Dance? (1937). Cool, sophisticated, and rakishly elegant, Astaire gave the illusion of effortless ease to the most technically exacting routines, notably with subsequent partners like Cyd Charisse (in Band Wagon, 1953).  His remarkable potential was not always obvious - early in his Hollywood career, one studio official described Astaire with the words,

"Can't act. Slightly bald. Also dances.")