Fred Astaire, born Frederick Austerlitz (1899 - 1987), American dancer and actor pictured with his elder sister, Adele (1896 - 1981) who was his dance partner from childhood until 1932, when she retired from dance to marry the British aristocrat Lord Charles Spencer Cavendish, second son of the 9th Duke of Devonshire. Pictured at the time they were appearing in 'Stop Flirting' at the Shaftesbury Theatre in London in 1923.