Even in something as dire as Second Chorus Fred Astaire lights up the screen so when Paramount re-teamed him with both Bing Crosby and Irving Berlin he wasn't going to do a lot wrong. Actually Paramount re-teamed him with Crosby, Berlin AND the same screenplay they shot in Black and White as Holiday Inn shrewdly betting that lightning would strike twice. Had they retained Marjorie Reynolds and deep-sixed Joan Caulfield we may well have been talking classic. As it is Fred Astaire is just about the only thing worth watching. Crosby has a few half-decent moments, Billy de Wolfe and Olga San Juan do their best but Caulfield just didn't turn up. Given how well they worked with a score by Berlin we can only dream of how sensational they would have been in a movie with words and music by Cole Porter.
Review of Blue Skies
