Academy Awards, USA 1950
| Nominated Oscar | Best Cinematography, Color Harry Stradling Sr. |
MGM
Directed by Charles Walters
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
(Turner Classic Movies)
Professional dancing couple Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers spend their downtime bickering and fighting. Fed up playing second fiddle to Fred's ego, Ginger leaves him to star in a dramatic play. Fred thinks she is in love with the play's director. He impersonates his French accent in a series of phone calls, at first to help her, but later to spy on her. The boring melodrama is interspersed with the usual jaw dropping dance routines the couple is famous for, but set to rather routine music. Pianist Oscar Levant, on the other hand, steals every scene in which he appears.
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