ADELE ASTAIRE

Adele Astaire was born Adele Marie Austerlitz in Omaha, Nebraska in 1896. 2 1/2 years later, her younger brother, Fred, was born, and they were from a working class family, and when their mother saw their dancing talents at a very young age, she steered them into a sister/brother act, and they moved to New York in 1905, and started performing in vaudeville. By the early 1920s, they were regularly performing on Broadway and in London. In 1932, after having performed together for 27 years, Adele married an English lord, and retired, becoming Adele, Lady Charles Cavendish, and she passed away in 1981 at the age of 84.