A: Nobody really. Well, actually, Fred Astaire. - Fred Astaire

The audience meets Mr. Astaire and The Gay Divorcee at their best when he is adjusting his cravat to an elaborate dance routine or saying the delicious things with his flashing feet that a librettist would have difficulty putting into words.

He is the most interesting, the most inventive, the most elegant dancer of our times... you see a little bit of Astaire in everybody's dancing--a pause here, a move there. It was all Astaire's originally.

He was not just the best ballroom dancer, or tap dancer, he was simply the greatest, most imaginative, dancer of our time.