I agree with most of the other reviews: This is not a great movie, story-wise. In fact it's quite a dumb story about a girl who can't make up her mind which guy she wants to marry.
And I agree that Joan Caulfield adds nothing to the movie. Too bad they didn't use someone with more appeal.
But it's fun seeing Bing and Fred together, and some of the songs are pretty good.
But by far the main attraction is the Puttin on the Ritz tap number in which Fred Astaire once again out-does himself! This time, literally, with mirrored images...
And the magically jumping cane had me going "Huh?! How'd he DO that???!!"
I wish someone could take all of Astaire's dance numbers with Ginger AND with all the others and put just those on a DVD! Now THAT would be a great DVD to own! And would prevent us from having to watch some of these so-so movies just to get to the "good parts" where Fred dances and/or sings!
All in all, though, this isn't that bad of a movie. Not nearly so bad as some of the other later Astaire movies. (Again, Fred was always good, but sometimes the supporting cast and/or the scripts were just plain bad.)
And I agree that Joan Caulfield adds nothing to the movie. Too bad they didn't use someone with more appeal.
But it's fun seeing Bing and Fred together, and some of the songs are pretty good.
But by far the main attraction is the Puttin on the Ritz tap number in which Fred Astaire once again out-does himself! This time, literally, with mirrored images...
And the magically jumping cane had me going "Huh?! How'd he DO that???!!"
I wish someone could take all of Astaire's dance numbers with Ginger AND with all the others and put just those on a DVD! Now THAT would be a great DVD to own! And would prevent us from having to watch some of these so-so movies just to get to the "good parts" where Fred dances and/or sings!
All in all, though, this isn't that bad of a movie. Not nearly so bad as some of the other later Astaire movies. (Again, Fred was always good, but sometimes the supporting cast and/or the scripts were just plain bad.)