This was a typical Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers movie which means one really good thing and one really bad thing. You could count on both for the remaining films these two entertainment giants did together over the next decade.
THE GOOD - great dancing, as always, and a little humor thrown into the mix; THE BAD - a stupid story filled with people who are misunderstood and another slam at marriage, trivializing it once again.
This was the first film in which this famous duo were paired in leading roles. Have you noticed Astaire always looked the same age for at least two decades? Rogers really looks young here. She exhibits a nice singing voice, too. Astaire sings more in this movie than in later films. The musical highlight is a very long song-and-dance number near the end, done to the tune "The Continental." That helps make up for the stupid story.
Alice Brady makes repeated attempts at humor but falls short most of the time. The same goes for Edward Everett Horton, who seems to play these annoying roles in many films. A very young Betty Grable is seen early on in the film in a Busby Berkeley-type number.
THE GOOD - great dancing, as always, and a little humor thrown into the mix; THE BAD - a stupid story filled with people who are misunderstood and another slam at marriage, trivializing it once again.
This was the first film in which this famous duo were paired in leading roles. Have you noticed Astaire always looked the same age for at least two decades? Rogers really looks young here. She exhibits a nice singing voice, too. Astaire sings more in this movie than in later films. The musical highlight is a very long song-and-dance number near the end, done to the tune "The Continental." That helps make up for the stupid story.
Alice Brady makes repeated attempts at humor but falls short most of the time. The same goes for Edward Everett Horton, who seems to play these annoying roles in many films. A very young Betty Grable is seen early on in the film in a Busby Berkeley-type number.