Academy Awards, USA 1949
| Won Oscar | Best Music, Scoring of a Musical Picture Johnny Green Roger Edens |
MGM
Directed by Charles Walters
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
(Turner Classic Movies)
Perennially happy Fred Astaire's world comes crashing down when his dance partner/lover decides to go out on her own. Just to prove she couldn't have done it without him, he picks naive saloon hall dancer Judy Garland at random one night and claims he can train her to be just as good. Judy stumbles her way through the first few routines, but eventually they do become big stars. While the dancing and colorful costumes are entertaining, their juvenile romantic entanglements are not, with Judy in love with Fred, even though he seems to just use women for his own career, and completely ignoring a younger, more appropriate man.
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