The read
Critics rate it 17 points higher than audiences do. Scores higher than 84% of the 192 1930s romance movies in this catalog.
Synopsis
Lucky is tricked into missing his own wedding to Margaret and has to make $25,000 so her father will allow him to marry her. He and business partner Pop go to New York where they run into dancing instructor Penny. She and Lucky form a successful dance partnership, but romance is blighted by his old attachment to Margaret and hers for Ricky.
Ratings
IMDb7.4/10
Rotten Tomatoes96%
Metacritic91/100
Critics rate it 17 points higher than audiences do.
256 audience votes
Key crew
- Allan ScottScreenplay
- Howard LindsayScreenplay
- George StevensDirector
- Jerome KernOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Fred AstaireLucky Garnett
- Ginger RogersPenny Carrol
- Victor MoorePop Cardetti
- Helen BroderickMabel Anderson
- Eric BloreGordon
- Betty FurnessMargaret Watson
- Georges MetaxaRicky Romero
- Landers StevensJudge Watson (uncredited)
- Jack GoodeDancer (uncredited)
- Gerald HamerEric Lacanistram (uncredited)
- Edgar Dearing(uncredited)
- Fern Emmett(uncredited)
Stills
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Themes
new york citydancingmusicalballroom dancingsingingblack and whitegamblerbased on short storydance instructordance actback stagejilted woman