2025-01-27 11:08
“After watching a section of ‘Broadway Melody of 1940,’ Cary Grant whispered to me, “Who do you think did Fred’s clothes?” Cary had just gone crazy over the white tuxedo that Fred wore. There was Cary, one of the great fashion figures in all of Hollywood, asking where Fred got his clothes.” —Jack Haley, Jr.
(From “Fred Astaire: His Friends Talk” by Sarah Giles, 1988)
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