Let's Dance (1950 film)
Let's Dance is a 1950 musical romantic comedy Technicolor film starring Betty Hutton and Fred Astaire, and released by Paramount Pictures.
| Let's Dance | |
|---|---|
 theatrical release poster | |
| Directed by | Norman Z. McLeod |
| Produced by | Robert Fellows |
| Screenplay by | Allan Scott Dane Lussier (add. dialogue) |
| Based on | Little Boy Blue (story, 1948) by Maurice Zolotow |
| Starring | Betty Hutton Fred Astaire |
| Music by | Robert Emmett Dolan |
| Cinematography | George Barnes (cinematographer) |
| Edited by | Ellsworth Hoagland |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
Release date | November 29, 1950 |
Running time | 111-112 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $2.4 million (US rentals)[1] |
Plot
A war widow returns to work with her former dancing partner, but her upper class mother-in-law is against that her grandson is being exposed to show business and takes legal steps to gain custody.
Cast
- Betty Hutton as Kitty McNeil
- Fred Astaire as Donald Elwood
- Roland Young as Edmund Pohlwhistle
- Ruth Warrick as Carola Everett
- Lucile Watson as Serena Everett
- Gregory Moffett as Richard Everett
- Barton MacLane as Larry Channock
- Shepperd Strudwick as Timothy Bryant
- Melville Cooper as Charles Wagstaffe
- Harold Huber as Marcel
- George Zucco as Judge Mackenzie
- Peggy Badley as Bubbles Malone
- Virginia Toland as Elsie
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, and even, perhaps just coincidentally, gave the Astaire character the same first name (Don) as in the 1948 film. 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.
Hutton was loaned to MGM to replace Garland (because of illness) as Annie Oakley in Annie Get Your Gun.
Frank Loesser wrote the music.
Comic book adaption
- Eastern Color Movie Love #7 (February 1951)[2]
References
- 'The Top Box Office Hits of 1950', Variety, January 3, 1951
- "Movie Love #7". Grand Comics Database.
External links
- Let's Dance on IMDb
- Let's Dance at Rotten Tomatoes
- Let's Dance at the TCM Movie Database
- Let's Dance at AllMovie
- Let's Dance at the American Film Institute Catalog