Word: hayworth
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...when the team split, Astaire kept doing it all, on his own. Though his dancing partners in the next two decades included such game gals as Rita Hayworth, Judy Garland, Cyd Charisse, Leslie Caron and Audrey Hepburn, Astaire's most famous dance numbers were now his solos. And alone he used the properties of film as cleverly as he had earlier translated stage dancing to the screen. He defied time by dancing in slow motion in Easter Parade, defied gravity by dancing up walls and across ceilings in Royal Wedding, defied age by hoofing elegantly through his sixth, seventh...
DIED. Dick Haymes, 64, buttery-voiced baritone and film star who sang with some of the finest of the swing era's Big Bands (including Tommy Dorsey's and Benny Goodman's), married often (six wives, including Rita Hayworth) and was probably known best for his renditions of songs like It Might as Well Be Spring; of lung cancer; in Los Angeles...