A delightful film, perhaps the quintessential Astaire-Rogers movie. I was hooked from the start.
Astaire and Rogers look great in formal wear.
And I’ve come to appreciate the over-acting skills of Edward Everett Horton and Eric Blore.
This movie has everything – Irving Berlin songs, gorgeous sets, elegant costumes, and the pace of a farce in typical British fashion – lots of comings and goings, mistaken identities, near misses, and belly laughs.
It’s a great film.
The special features are nice, too. They consist of interviews with people associated with the film as well as film historians.
One thing I learned, however, that took a bit of wind out of my sails regarding Ginger Rogers’ dancing. It was revealed that someone –