Astaire soon returned to the big screen to replace the injured Kelly in “Easter Parade”. A final reunion with Rogers in “The Barkleys of Broadway”. He then went on to make more musicals throughout the 1950s: “Let's Dance”, “Royal Wedding”, “Three Little Words” and “The Belle of New York”, “The Band Wagon” and “Silk Stockings”, “Daddy Long Legs”, and “Funny Face”.
During 1952 Astaire recorded “The Astaire Story”, a four-volume album with a quintet led by Oscar Peterson. The album, produced by Norman Granz, provided a musical overview of Astaire's career. “The Astaire Story” later won the Grammy Hall of Fame Award in 1999, a special Grammy award to honor recordings that are at least twenty-five years old and that have "qualitative or historical significance."
His legacy at this point was 30 musical films in 25 years. Afterwards, Astaire announced that he was retiring from dancing in film to concentrate on dramatic acting, scoring rave reviews for the nuclear war drama “On the Beach”.
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