Eons after his white tie and tails filled the silver screen, Fred Astaire is still top hat.
"There's never been anyone to come along like Fred Astaire," his co-star Janis Paige told IBD.
"Astaire was one of the greats, the giants," raves New York stage producer Chip Deffaa.
He was "that greatest of all dancers, male or female, classical or modern, ballet or ballroom, rap or tap, break or flake, highbrow or low," wrote Joseph Epstein in his 2008 biography.
Rudolf Nureyev, rated by one site as No. 1 in this arena, called Astaire "the greatest dancer in American history."
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