photo credit: danceonair1986
Birth Name:
Frederick Austerlitz
Birth Place:
Nebraska, USA
Ethnicity:
Jewish and German
The dancer/actor’s real name was Frederick Austerlitz.
He was born in Omaha Nebraska to a father of Jewish ancestry and a German mother.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Astaire
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all that the Nazis hated … a jewish father and a german mother…hopefully for them their were not in Germany in 1939
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and also gwyneth paltrow sarah jessica parker
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he isnt German he is Austrian-American, duh.
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got proof?
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PUTTIN ON THE RITZ! LOL.
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