weren’t never there

she wrote a long letter on a short piece of paper

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Brad Dourif in NYC, September 1990.

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Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers in The Gay Divorcee (1934)

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Fred & Adele Astaire, 1930

“She is so American & perfect, so slim & graceful. I adore her ugly face and the pearls tight around her neck. She is perfect & he’s too marvellous also. I should adore to go to sleep with him. Jost stroke him all over & then go to sleep. It would be too perfect. He’s so modern & American & subtle & slick. He has the most lovely shaped head a & gorgeous fat little common nose & sensual little fat lips. Oh! He’s gorgeous, & he moves just so sloppily & perfectly…Their dancing is just too extraordinarily marvelous to describe…He is so unclumsy & yet so un-effeminate.” - Cecil Beaton

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Adele Astaire (September 10, 1896 – January 25, 1981) and Fred Astaire (May 10, 1899 – June 22, 1987)  

Adele left show business in 1932 to become the wife of Lord Cavendish, the second son of the ninth Duke of Devonshire. Fred said of his sister on her retirement, “She was a great artist and inimitable, and the grandest sister anybody could have.” He had followed her into dancing. When he was 5 and she was 8, their parents sent him to her dance classes so he could keep her company, but he got interested. They had a 27 year career together.

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Fred Astaire, 1935

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Fred Astaire in The Gay Divorcee (1934)

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Fred Astaire in The Gay Divorcee (1934)

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“Back here is a jungle full of the most noble and horrible things. That’s your subconscious mind. It works all the time. Even when you sleep, it dreams. It never forgets anything.”

Fred Astaire as Dr. Tony Flagg in Carefree (1938)

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Behind the scenes on 2001: A Space Odyssey. 

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Keir Dullea striking a Leonardo Da Vinci pose in US Magazine in the article “Keir Dullea’s Space Odyssey” (December 31, 1984).  He was 48 years old!!!!

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2010: The Year We Make Contact (1984)

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Fred Astaire in “Follow the Fleet” (1936)

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Fred Astaire in Yolanda and the Thief (1945) dir. Vincente Minnelli

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“I am putting myself to the fullest possible use, which is all I think that any conscious entity can ever hope to do.” - 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

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“Look Dave, I can see you’re really upset about this. I honestly think you ought to sit down calmly, take a stress pill, and think things over.” – 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

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Nobody with a good car needs to be justified. → 4/?

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Fred Astaire