Career: Astaire continued to achieve success on his own on the stage, before making his Hollywood debut in Dancing Lady (1933). He starred with Ginger Rogers for the first time in Flying Down to Rio (1933). Despite being reluctant to become part of another dance team, Astaire went on to star with Rogers in 10 films, including The Gay Divorcee (1934), Roberta (1935), Top Hat (1935), Follow the Fleet (1936), Swing Time (1936) and Carefree (1938). Astaire also starred alongside Bing Crosby in Holiday Inn (1942) and Blue Skies (1946), Rita Hayworth in You'll Never Get Rich (1941), Leslie Caron in Daddy Long Legs (1955), and Audrey Hepburn in Funny Face (1957). Astaire's last musical film was Francis Ford Coppola's Finian's Rainbow (1968). He received his only Academy Award nomination for his role in The Towering Inferno (1974). He died on June 22, 1987 at the age of 88.

Career: Hepburn went on to star in a number of successful films, including Funny Face (1957), Love in the Afternoon (1957), The Children's Hour (1961), Charade (1963) and My Fair Lady (1964). She picked up Academy Award nominations for her roles in Sabrina (1954), The Nun's Story (1959), Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961) and Wait Until Dark (1967). Hepburn acted only occasionally after 1967 after deciding to devote more time to her family. Her last film role was a cameo appearance in Steven Spielberg's Always (1988). In 1989, she was appointed a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador and spent the reminder of her life helping children in poor nations. In November 1992, Hepburn was diagnosed with a rare form of abdominal cancer. She died at her home in Switzerland on January 20, 1993. She was 63. She was posthumously awarded the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award at the 1993 Academy Awards.