I get asked how I come up with column topics. Fred Astaire starred in the 1970 Christmas TV special “Santa Claus Is Coming to Town” as the mailman narrator, who Hallmark depicted in a 2004 ornament.

After learning about Fred Astaire’s talented older sister, Adele, who was a successful actor, singer and dancer in her own right, Eliza Knight knew she needed to tell her story. The USA Today ...

NEW YORK — Director-choreographer-dancer Tommy Tune will receive a lifetime achievement honor at the 2008 Fred & Adele Astaire Awards. Tune, 69, who has won nine Tony Awards, will direct Turn of the ...

NEW YORK — Director-choreographer-dancer Tommy Tune will be honored with a lifetime achievement honor at the 2008 Fred & Adele Astaire Awards. The lifetime achievement prize has been renamed The ...

Adele had been the first to be sent to dance school, and Fred, as Riley notes, “literally followed in her footsteps.” Driven by their instructor’s -enthusiasm over the siblings’ “gift,” Mrs. Astaire ...