If one could have predicted what Fred Astaire's final motion picture would've been, they likely would've guessed it was a movie musical, or at least something pleasant and frothy. Yet while Astaire was, in his Hollywood heyday, a consummate song-and-dance man, the actor seemed interested in leaving that reputation behind him during the last act of his career.

Of course, Astaire was not so naive as to believe he could change his entire screen persona from his prior decades of film appearances, but during the mid-'70s and early '80s, he nonetheless chose projects and roles that didn't have any musical component to them and certainly didn't require...

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