[Harp-L] re: F Astaire

[martin oldsberg <martinoldsberg@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks to Elizabeth, who´s probably correcting an urban myth here. I always thought "balding" was kinda harsh; "slightly bald" more to the point. 
    And just like with his acting, he definitely made the most of the hair he had.
    
    Low harp content here, sorry.
    /Martin
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  Elizabeth wrote:
   
  Not even close.  After Fred Astaire's first screen test, the
  evaluation was:
 
 "Can't act. Can't sing. Balding. Can dance a little."  ...at  least 
according to 'lore'.
But then there's this:
 
"The producer of the Astaire-Rogers pictures Pandro S. Berman claimed
 he  had 
never heard it in the 1930s and that it only emerged years later.
 Astaire,  
in a 1980 interview on ABC's 20/20 with Barbara Walters, insisted that
 the  
report had actually read: "Can't act. Slightly bald. Also dances". 
(...)

       
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