No need to go over the plot- he's well off and she's poor, he's a dancer and he teachers how to dance. Judy Garland can sing and she could play the piano but in her piano scene her fingers are so obviously not playing what you are hearing that it is ridiculous. If she can't play the piano that well then why make it look she is attempting to play?
The one funny part of this film was Judy Garland walking down the street and pulling a fish like face, or rather more appropriately a tuba face to make Gentlemen turn around and look at her. The scene is hilarious and one that will never stop being funny but it is the only truly wonderful thing about that film. The dances are okay but even the tap dancing isn't in time with the music and there aren't enough steps for the music going on. I know that people loved Fred Astaire but he has made better films and the better actors play different roles. The only role that I have seen him take on where he wasn't a dancer was his role as a photographer in Funny Face and even then he was an upper class man.
There are better films of his that should be watched instead of this one.
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