- Film Review
- Reviewed By David Parkinson
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4 out of 5
In this wonderful musical comedy, shore-leave sailors Fred Astaire and Randolph Scott breeze into town and fall for sisters Ginger Rogers and Harriet Nelson [Hilliard]. The plot revolving around the Scott/Hilliard characters had dominated the stage play Shore Leave and the Broadway show and film of Hit the Deck, on which sources this film was based. But here it plays second fiddle to the romance between the swaggering Astaire and the equally sassy Rogers. The settings might not be the Art Deco delights of the couple's other pictures and not all of Irving Berlin's songs would make his greatest hits compilation, but the song-and-dance duo are as captivating as ever and Let's Face the Music and Dance ranks as one of their finest routines.
Plot Summary
Musical comedy starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. Song-and-dance man "Bake" Baker joins the navy when his girlfriend Sherry leaves him, but their romance is rekindled when the fleet docks in San Francisco.
Cast and crew
Cast
- "Bake" Baker
- Fred Astaire
- Sherry Martin
- Ginger Rogers
- Bilge Smith
- Randolph Scott
- Connie Martin
- Harriet Nelson
- Iris Manning
- Astrid Allwyn
- Showgirl
- Betty Grable
- Captain Ezra Hickey
- Harry Beresford
- Jim Nolan
- Russell Hicks
- Sullivan
- Brooks Benedict
- Dopey
- Ray Mayer
- Kitty Collins
- Lucille Ball
Crew
- Director
- Mark Sandrich
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