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Lets Dance (1950 film)

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Director
  
Norman Z. McLeod

Music by
  
Robert E. Dolan

Duration
  

Language
  
English

6.2/10
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Genre
  
Musical, Comedy, Romance

Producer
  
Robert Fellows

Country
  
United States

Lets Dance (1950 film) movie poster

Release date
  
November 29, 1950

Based on
  
Little Boy Blue (story, 1948) by Maurice Zolotow

Writer
  
Dane Lussier (additional dialogue), Allan Scott, Maurice Zolotow (story)

Cast
  
Betty Hutton
(Kitty McNeil),
Fred Astaire
(Donald Elwood),
Roland Young
(Edmund Pohlwhistle),
Ruth Warrick
(Carola Everett),
Lucile Watson
(Serena Everett),
Gregory Moffett
(Richard 'Richie' Everett)

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,
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,
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,
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,
Aladdin

Tagline
  
HEARTS ARE DANCING WITH JOY!

Let's Dance is a 1950 musical romantic comedy Technicolor film starring Betty Hutton and Fred Astaire, and released by Paramount Pictures.

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Plot

A war widow returns to work with her former dancing partner, but her upper class mother-in-law is aghast that her grandson is being exposed to show business and takes legal steps to gain custody.

Production

Buoyed by the great success of MGM teaming Astaire with their biggest female musical star Judy Garland in the 1948 musical blockbuster Easter Parade, Paramount decided to team Astaire with their biggest female musical star (Hutton) hoping that the same box-office magic would happen. Unfortunately, the film did not repeat the earlier film's success.

While the film did reasonably well financially, overall it proved to be a disappointment. Let's Dance was completely overshadowed by Hutton's other musical film of 1950, Annie Get Your Gun, which became one of the highest-grossing films of the year.

Ironically, Hutton was loaned to MGM to replace Garland (because of illness) as Annie Oakley in Annie Get Your Gun. Also, Astaire's character's first name in Let's Dance (Don) is the same first name as his character in Easter Parade.

Frank Loesser wrote the music.

Comic book adaption

  • Eastern Color Movie Love #7 (February 1951)

    • References

    Let's Dance (1950 film) Wikipedia
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    Lets Dance (1950 film) IMDb Lets Dance (1950 film) themoviedb.org