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Let's Dance (1950 film)

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Let's Dance
theatrical release poster
Directed byNorman Z. McLeod
Screenplay byAllan Scott
Dane Lussier (add. dialogue)
Produced byRobert Fellows
StarringBetty Hutton
Fred Astaire
CinematographyGeorge Barnes (cinematographer)
Edited byEllsworth Hoagland
Music byRobert Emmett Dolan
Production
company
Distributed byParamount Pictures
Release date
November 29, 1950
Running time
111-112 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Box office$2.4 million (US rentals)[1]

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

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

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.

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

References

  1. ^ 'The Top Box Office Hits of 1950', Variety, January 3, 1951
  2. ^ "Movie Love #7". Grand Comics Database.


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