| Academy Awards, USA | |||
| Year | Result | Award | Category/Recipient(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1956 | Nominated | Oscar | Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Color Lyle R. Wheeler John DeCuir Walter M. Scott Paul S. Fox |
| Best Music, Original Song Johnny Mercer For the song "Something's Gotta Give" | |||
| Best Music, Scoring of a Musical Picture Alfred Newman | |||
Twentieth Century-Fox Film
Directed by Jean Negulesco
My rating: 3 stars out of 4
IMDb
(DVD, Fox)
Fred Astaire, approaching 60, romances 24-year-old Leslie Caron, whose character is only 18. He tries desperately to avoid being labelled a "sugar daddy", the title is sort of a polite variation, but in the end it's hard to deny. He pays for her to leave a poor orphanage to attend an American college, where he lavishes her with expensive clothing. It's all done anonymously, but he shows up at her dorm one day as her roommate's "uncle", then whisks her off to New York for dancing and dining. She falls in love, but not before he has second thoughts about the whole thing and disappears. The story never crosses the line, but certainly flirts with it. However, there are several very good dance sequences, especially the final ballet/dream choreographed by Roland Petit which is one of the best of its type. Uneven to be sure, but quite entertaining and frequently breathtaking.
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