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Hermes Pan - The Man Who Danced with Fred Astaire (Hardcover)
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Hermes Pan - The Man Who Danced with Fred Astaire (Hardcover)
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Armed with an eighth-grade education, an inexhaustible imagination,
and an innate talent for dancing, Hermes Pan (1909-1990) was a boy
from Tennessee who became the most prolific, popular, and memorable
choreographer of the glory days of the Hollywood musical. While he
may be most well-known for the Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers musicals
which he choreographed at RKO film studios, he also created dances
at Twentieth Century-Fox, M-G-M, Paramount, and later for
television, winning both the Oscar and the Emmy for best
choreography.
In Hermes Pan: The Man Who Danced with Fred Astaire, Pan emerges as
a man in full, an artist inseparable from his works. He was a
choreographer deeply interested in his dancers' personalities, and
his dances became his way of embracing and understanding the
outside world. Though his time in a Trappist monastery proved to
him that he was more suited to choreography than to life as a monk,
Pan remained a deeply devout Roman Catholic throughout his creative
life, a person firmly convinced of the powers of prayer. While he
was rarely to be seen without several beautiful women at his side,
it was no secret that Pan was homosexual and even had a life
partner. As Pan worked at the nexus of the cinema industry's
creative circles during the golden age of the film musical, this
book traces not only Pan's personal life but also the history of
the Hollywood musical itself. It is a study of Pan, who emerges
here as a benevolent perfectionist, and equally of the stars,
composers, and directors with whom he worked, from Astaire and
Rogers to Betty Grable, Rita Hayworth, Elizabeth Taylor, Sammy
Davis Jr., Frank Sinatra, Bob Fosse, George Gershwin, Samuel
Goldwyn, and countless other luminaries of American popular
entertainment.
Author John Franceschina bases his telling of Pan's life on
extensive first-hand research into Pan's unpublished correspondence
and his own interviews. Pan enjoyed one of the most illustrious
careers of any Hollywood dance director, and because his work also
spanned across Broadway and television, this book will appeal to
readers interested in musical theater history, dance history, and
film.
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