"Actor: Fred Astaire"

• Ziegfeld Follies (1946) | DVD | (26/02/2015) from £15.21   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Sabrina / Funny Face Double Pack | DVD | (22/04/2013) from £6.99   |  Saving you £6.00 (85.84%)   |  RRP £12.99

  SabrinaAudrey Hepburn is the delightful, young, eponymous Sabrina, the daughter of a chauffeur who is hopelessly in love with David Larrabee (William Holden), the playboy younger son in the rich Long Island household her father works for. In order to help her forget her woes, Sabrina is shipped off to cooking school in Paris. While there, she befriends a baron who provides a bit of culture--and the encouragement to snip off her childlike ponytail. Upon her return to New York, Sabrina is transformed into a sophisticated woman, and David is entranced by her. However, his older brother Linus (Humphrey Bogart) has arranged David's marriage to Elizabeth Tyson in order to seal a business merger and thus must steer David away from Sabrina. To do this, Linus takes on the task of wooing her for himself. Full of great dialogue ("A woman happy in love, she burns the soufflé; a woman unhappy in love, she forgets to turn on the oven") and wonderful performances, this film is a romantic masterpiece. Also enjoyable is the 1995 remake, starring Julia Ormond and Harrison Ford. --Jenny Brown Funny FaceFred Astaire plays a fashion photographer based on real-life cameraman Richard Avedon, in this entertaining musical directed by Stanley Donen (Singin' in the Rain). The story finds Astaire's character turning Audrey Hepburn into a chic Paris model--not a tough premise to buy, especially within this film's air of enchantment and surrounded by a great Gershwin score. Based on an unproduced play, this is one of the best films from the latter part of Astaire's career. --Tom Keogh

• Hollywood Musicals Collection | DVD | (20/09/2004) from £13.94   |  Saving you £-0.95 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Box set of the decades 1940s 1950s and 1960s featuring highlights and clips of musicals - Kismet Singing In The Rain Seven Brides For Seven Brothers The Sound Of Music West Side Story Mary Poppins Oliver Funny Girl and so many more with a host of stars.

• The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle | DVD | (21/04/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The great Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers star in this fascinating biopic as the greatest ballroom dancing team of the first half of the 20th Century: Vernon and Irene Castle. This phenomenal dancing pair swept the world with their mastery of dancing and quickly became celebrities before World War I brought their fame to an end.

• Hollywood Biographies | DVD | (21/08/2006) from £17.53   |  Saving you £-4.54 (-34.90%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A fascinating 5 disc set of half hour profiles spotlighting the personal lives and extraordinary careers of 50 legendary Hollywood leading men.Dashing Errol Flynn! Handsome Paul Newman! Versatile Jack Nicholson! are just a few of the great movie actors featured in this definitive collection.From the early classic era of John Barrymore James Cagney and Cary Grant to more contemporary heart throbs such as Warren Beatty Mel Gibson and John Travolta 'Hollywood Biographies: The Leading Men' tells their amazing stories through rare film clips television appearances photographs and interviews. Over 20 hours of footage on 5 DVD 9s all packaged in space saving slimpac boxes with an overall box width for the entire collection of just 4cms.

• The Belle of New York | DVD | (30/01/2018) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The Sky's The Limit | DVD | (04/10/2010) from £18.23   |  Saving you £-5.24 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  One of Fred Astaire's least known but double Oscar nominated dance movies features Fred performing his legendary breaking glass dance routine. Fred Atwell (Fred Astaire) is a decorated Air Force pilot home on leave and expected to act as a cardboard hero for a morale-boosting tour of his Flying Tiger squadron. Bored by the whole affair however Fred takes off his uniform and goes incognito in New York for a few days bumping into Joan Mannion (Joan Leslie) a bright-eyed photographer who sings and dances. Determined to win over the girl for what he is and not his reputation Fred allows Joan to think he's a waster who doesn't want to serve his country. Naturally Joan wants nothing to do with this shirker but then she sees him dance...

• Daddy Long Legs | DVD | (26/02/2007) from £5.99   |  Saving you £7.00 (116.86%)   |  RRP £12.99

  This 1955 Oscar-nominated musical romance features the incomparable Fred Astaire in some of his most stunning dance sequences. Daddy Long Legs is a magical musical following a young French girl (Leslie Caron) through college her education sponsored by a mysterious man with long legs. Millionaire Jervis Pendleton III (Fred Astaire) is from old money and although generous with his wealth he must learn how to give of his emotions. Amid sparkling musical numbers and dream sequences comic relief comes from Fred Clark as Griggs Jervis' assistant and Thelma Ritter as Jervis' secretary.

• Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town | DVD | (03/10/2011) from £2.36   |  Saving you £5.63 (238.56%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Do you remember when...The Burgermeister Meisterburger banned toys, and Kris Kringle became Santa Claus? Share the magic of this Original Christmas Classic told and sung by Fred Astaire!

• 3 Classic Musicals Of The Silver Screen - Vol. 2 | DVD | (01/08/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  The Royal Wedding: A brother-and-sister dance team enthrall their New York audiences but when their show is requested in London they jump at the chance and hop on board the next ship crossing the pond. Love blossoms on the unruly seas and in lovely London as the romance of the royal English wedding fills the air. Featuring some of Fred Astaire's most famous and entertaining numbers - including his dancing on the ceiling - and bubbly songstress Jane Powell 'Royal Wedding' glo

• Ziegfeld Follies | Blu Ray | (15/06/2021) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The Original Christmas Classics | DVD | (07/11/2011) from £10.99   |  Saving you £2.00 (15.40%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Titles Comprise:Frosty The Snowman Rudolph The Red Nosed ReindeerSanta Claus Is Comin' To Town

• Audrey Hepburn | DVD | (13/03/2006) from £19.39   |  Saving you £30.60 (157.81%)   |  RRP £49.99

  Breakfast At Tiffany's:The names Audrey Hepburn and Holly Golightly have become synonymous since this dazzling romantic comedy was translated to the screen from Truman Capote's best-selling novella. Holly is a deliciously eccentric New York City playgirl, determined to marry a Brazilian millionaire. George Peppard plays her next-door neighbour, a writer who is 'sponsored' by a wealthy Patricia Neal. Guessing who's the right man for Holly is easy. Seeing just how that romance blossoms is one of the enduring delights of this gem-like treat set to Henry Mancini's Oscar-winning score and the Oscar-winning Mancini-Johnny Mercer song, 'Moon River'.Paris When It Sizzles:William Holden portrays a screenwriter with a script deadline in three days. When he asks secretary Audrey Hepburn to help concoct ideas, she acts out a potpourri of preposterous plots. Beautifully shot on location in Paris by famed cinematographer Claude Renoir.Funny Face:Paris, the City of Light, shines even brighter when Audrey Hepburn and Fred Astaire team up for the only time and bring their luminous starpower to this exquisite musical featuring songs by George and Ira Gershwin. This dazzling romp - filmed on location in Paris - garnered four Academy Award nominations. In the role of a bookstore clerk transformed into a modelling sensation, Hepburn showcases singing and dancing skills she had honed on the London stage, performing How Long Has This Been Going On?, a Basal Metabolism dance in a cool-cat bistro and more. Astaire, as the fashion photographer who discovers her, conjures up his inimitable magic for sequences that include Let's Kiss And Make Up matador diversion, a heavenly dance with Hepburn to He Loves And She Loves and, again with Hepburn, the title-tune enchantment, I Love Your Funny Face. Now and Forever, so do we.Also includes the following films:Sabrina and Roman Holiday

• The Fred Astaire Collection | DVD | (15/10/2007) from £14.95   |  Saving you £-6.96 (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  'Can't sing. Can't act Balding. Can dance a little' was the report of Fred Astaire's first screen test in 1932 but Fred would go on to prove them wrong on just about every matter other than his baldness! Whilst none of the films in this collection feature him with Ginger Rogers his most famous dance partner he does dance with Paulette Goddard and Ellen Bowen in Second Chorus and Royal Wedding respectively. The Over The Hill Gang is a rare comedy outing for Fred one he manages with ease. 1. Royal Wedding 2. Second Chorus 3. The Over The Hill Gang Rides Again

• Second Chorus | DVD | (02/02/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  A marvelously delightful 1930's style song and dance spectacular the likes of which would be wiped away by the December bombing of Pearl Harbor Second Chorus finds Fred Astaire as a struggling bandleader chased by a collection agent - Paulette. She serves the papers he chases her. She wangles him an audition with Artie Shaw which Burgess Meredith hilariously sabotages. A rich sugar daddy (the marvelous Charles Butterworth) smoothes things over with Artie and through it all Fred and Paulette dance and sing. For what more could you ask?

• On The Beach | DVD | (12/10/2015) from £14.99   |  Saving you £5.00 (33.36%)   |  RRP £19.99

  After World War III is over, all life in the northern hemisphere is wiped out. Only the inhabitants of Australia, along with the crew of the US submarine Sawfish, survive. But when the Sawfish goes on an exploratory journey to assess the atmosphere, it soon becomes apparent that the end is near for everyone. Acclaimed Hollywood film-maker Stanley Kramer (Inherit the Wind, Judgement at Nuremberg) directs an all-star cast which includes Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner and Fred Astaire, along with Anthony Perkins and Donna Anderson as the young parents who must make a terrible decision, in one the most powerful films of all time.

• Rita Hayworth: The Collection (Box Set) | DVD | (06/12/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £34.99

  You Were Never Lovelier (1942) In this lavish Hollywood musical, the headstrong daughter (Hayworth) of a powerful Argentine hotelier has to contend with her father's attempts to get her to marry...; ; Cover Girl (1944) Rusty Parker (Hayworth), a red-headed leggy dancer at Danny McGuire's Night Club in Brooklyn, wants to be a successful Broadway star. She enters a contest to be a 'Cover Girl' as a stepping-stone in her career...; ; Gilda (1946) In the story of Gilda, Johnn...

• Royal Wedding / Second Chorus | DVD | (08/05/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  Royal Wedding (Dir. Stanley Donen 1951): Brother and sister dance act Tom and Ellen Bowen finish an engagement in New York and journey to London at around the same time as a Royal wedding. On board the cruise ship Ellen meets and falls in love with Lord John Brindale with the result she pays less attention to her dancing. Upon arrival in London Tom auditions for a new partner and meets Anne Ashmond but romance starts to threaten the act... Second Chorus (Dir. H.C. Potte

• Fred Astaire - Second Chorus | DVD | (14/01/2008) from £12.98   |  Saving you £-6.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Fred Astaire (1899 - 1987) was an American film and Broadway stage dancer choreographer singer and actor. His stage and subsequent film career spanned a total of seventy-six years during which he made thirty-one musical films. Second Chorus the 1941 Hollywood musical comedy film starring Astaire Burgess Meredith Paulette Goddard Artie Shaw and Charles Butterworth with music by Artie Shaw Bernie Hanighen Hal Borne and lyrics by Johnny Mercer sees Danny O'Neill (Astaire) and Hank Taylor (Meredith) as rival trumpeters with college band the Perennials. Both men find themselves competing for the affections of Ellen Miller (Paulette Goddard) while trying to get the other one fired. Danny successfully secures Ellen's affections!

• 3 Classic Musicals Of The Silver Screen - Vol. 1 - Second Chorus / The Duke Is Tops / Private Buckaroo | DVD | (07/03/2005) from £4.03   |  Saving you £0.96 (19.20%)   |  RRP £4.99

  Second Chorus: Trumpet players Danny (Fred Astaire) and Hank (Burgess Meredith) have been avoiding graduation for seven years so that they can continue playing with their college band. They hire pretty Ellen Miller (Paulette Goddard) as the band's agent and as she quickly increases their earning power the boys find themselves with flourishing musical careers. Ellen is one day hired as Artie Shaw's band manager and makes plans for Danny and Hank to audition for Shaw. Both ho