Barrie Chase (born October 20, 1933), a dancer and actress, made four television specials as Fred Astaire's young partner in the 1960s, taking the place that Ginger Rogers had held thirty years before as Astaire's primary dance partner. She also appeared as the dancing, bikini-clad girlfriend of Dick Shawn's maniacal character in It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963). Chase retired from performing to devote herself to her husband and child in 1968, and they toured Europe on bicycles in 2003. She is the daughter of writer Borden Chase. Fred Astaire Fred Astaire (May 10, 1899 – June 22, 1987), born Frederick Austerlitz in Omaha, Nebraska, was an American film and Broadway stage dancer, choreographer, singer and actor. ... Ginger Rogers on the cover of the April, 1938 issue of Modern Screen Magazine Beautiful Ginger Rogers (July 16, 1911 – April 25, 1995) was a legendary Academy Award-winning American actress and dancer. ... Richard Schulefand was born on December 1, 1923 in Buffalo, New York. ... Its a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World is a comedy movie that followed the Hollywood trend in the 1960s of producing gigantic and epic films as a way to woo audiences into movie theaters. ... Allegedly getting his nominal inspiraton from Borden Milk and Chase-Manhattan Bank, Borden Chase (1900 - 1971), whose real name was Frank Fowler, went through an assortment of jobs including the building of New Yorks Holland Tunnel before turning, first to short stories and novels, and then to screenwriting with...