Did You Know?

"Puttin' on the Ritz," the song performed by Fred Astaire in the 1946 movie Blue Skies, was in part inspired by a 1920s fad involving Harlem residents dressing up and strolling up and down the borough's Lenox Avenue. "Puttin' on the Ritz" is slang for dressing well. The song was first written in 1929 by prolific Broadway songwriter Irving Berlin.