Number one it gets one point for full color. Yay.
The 9 other points; my observations.
Great dancing. Marge the daughter in real life of a dance studio owner. Little girl is darling. Tackabury a nice guy.
Divorce. Ugly. Gower a jerk for telling Marge to stay home and be a domestic slave. Ugh. The other woman, first an unwilling sort of understudy, becomes confident dancer with Marge's husband. Plus, other woman disses Marge's nail polish (?).
The other woman climbing all over Gower, calling him darling, sugar, baby, honey, or words to that effect, and right in front of Marge.
Marge had all the class. Gower was the heel. Was this just like in their real life? It looks creepy, because it looks like later in real life that that is just what happened.
Divorce part nasty and painful. The happy dancing parts are much more enjoyable, naturally. You know that I like dance films very much.
The Fred and Ginger of the 1950s? So it seemed. Marge and Gower Champion had a pair of golden names. Their stars shone brightly in that decade.
Of course, I also loved Marge and Gower Champion in the Show Boat film.
Ten out of ten.
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The 9 other points; my observations.
Great dancing. Marge the daughter in real life of a dance studio owner. Little girl is darling. Tackabury a nice guy.
Divorce. Ugly. Gower a jerk for telling Marge to stay home and be a domestic slave. Ugh. The other woman, first an unwilling sort of understudy, becomes confident dancer with Marge's husband. Plus, other woman disses Marge's nail polish (?).
The other woman climbing all over Gower, calling him darling, sugar, baby, honey, or words to that effect, and right in front of Marge.
Marge had all the class. Gower was the heel. Was this just like in their real life? It looks creepy, because it looks like later in real life that that is just what happened.
Divorce part nasty and painful. The happy dancing parts are much more enjoyable, naturally. You know that I like dance films very much.
The Fred and Ginger of the 1950s? So it seemed. Marge and Gower Champion had a pair of golden names. Their stars shone brightly in that decade.
Of course, I also loved Marge and Gower Champion in the Show Boat film.
Ten out of ten.
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