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The Band Wagon
(Vincente Minnelli, 1953)
Fred
Astaire was not merely a dancer, not merely a peerlessly debonair singer
and actor. He was, above all, the very epitome of style - style as an
almost heraldic quality. He might indeed have personified Style on a coat-of-arms,
as other, medieval forms personified Chastity and Avarice. The airiest
spirit of the American cinema - Astaire, a star on a stair!
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