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Note: A copy of this photograph, sourced from this page, has been uploaded to Wikipedia Commons. It is currently the subject of a deletion request: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/Image:Astaire_at_NBC_1936_commons.jpg Dermot 18:05, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

An NBC promotional photograph illustrating Fred Astaire singing during one of the six one-hour radio shows he created for NBC in 1936.

Source: It is reproduced on page 118 of Bob Thomas: Astaire, the Man, The Dancer. Weidenfeld and Nicholson, London, 1985. ISBN 0297784021

[edit] Fair use rationale

The picture is used in the Dancing and singing prowess section of the article Fred Astaire to illustrate the artist in his role as a leading vocalist of the 1930s and has been used by one of Astaire's biographers for a similar purpose. It is also the only photograph in the article provide a head and chest shot of the artist.
The photograph as reproduced here is of low resolution and is very substantially inferior to the original.

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(del) (cur) 16:57, 18 August 2006 . . Dermot (Talk | contribs) . . 579×557 (44,429 bytes) (An NBC promotional photograph illustrating Fred Astaire singing during one of the six one-hour radio shows he created for NBC in 1936. Source: It is reproduced on page 118 of Bob Thomas: ''Astaire, the Man, The Dancer.'' Weidenfeld and Nicholson,)