Category: Academy Awards History

Born May 10, 1899, Frederick Austerlitz became Fred Astaire when he and his older (by 18 months) sister, Adele, became vaudeville tap stars when he was just five years old. As their skills improved, they became bigger stars and broke into Broadway in 1917 with a show called Over the Top. Smash hits including Lady…

Born July 7, 1899 to Hungarian Jewish parents on New York’s Lower East Side, George Cukor’s father was a lawyer who expected him to follow in his footsteps. Instead young Cukor fell in love with the theatre and shortly after brief military service toward the end of World War I, had his first job in…