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by Jess Oppenheimer with Gregg Oppenheimer
© 1996 by Gregg Oppenheimer. All Rights Reserved
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| The Packard Hour, I learned after reading through some of the scripts during my first few days at work, was a variety hour starring Fred Astaire, who emceed the show, sang some songs from his movies, and tap danced on a four foot square wooden floor with microphones placed around it. Tap dancing doesn't seem like the sort of thing that people would make sure they were home to listen to on the radio, but the precision of Astaire's taps and the sophistication and intricacy of his rhythms somehow conjured up the complete picture in the audience's minds. Fred Astaire was at the top of his popularity. He had just completed Swing Time, his sixth movie with Ginger Rogers, and was in production on his seventh, Shall We Dance. The other elements of the program were composer-pianist-conductor Johnny Green and his orchestra; Charlie Butterworth, a popular comedy character actor in pictures, who appeared in either a monologue or a skit; Conrad Thibault, a baritone; singers Trudy Wood and Francia White; a guest star; and a skit involving everyone. . . . . | | |||||
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