Fred Astaire Month at TCM.....

It is Fred Astaire Month over at TCM.  The man who would become the movies' personification of grace, elegance and gentle humor was born Frederick Austerlitz on May 10, 1899, in Omaha, Nebraska, to an Austrian immigrant in the beer business. 

Noel Coward called him "the greatest dancer who ever lived," and Oscar Levant considered him "the best singer of songs the movie world ever knew." 

He performed with Cyd Charisse

Audrey Hepburn

Leslie Caron

Jane Powell

Vera-Ellen

Judy Garland

Joan Leslie

Rita Hayworth

and of course, Ginger Rogers