A glorious songburst of gaiety and laughter!
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.
- 6.8
- 1936
- Released
- 1h 43m
Fred Astaire
Lucky Garnett
Ginger Rogers
Penny Carrol
Victor Moore
Pop Cardetti
Helen Broderick
Mabel Anderson
Eric Blore
Gordon
Betty Furness
Margaret Watson
Georges Metaxa
Ricky Romero
Landers Stevens
Judge Watson (uncredited)
Jack Goode
Dancer (uncredited)
Gerald Hamer
Eric Lacanistram (uncredited)
Edgar Dearing
(uncredited)
Fern Emmett
(uncredited)
Olin Francis
(uncredited)
John Harrington
(uncredited)
Howard Hickman
(uncredited)
Frank Jenks
(uncredited)
Frank Mills
(uncredited)
Ferdinand Munier
(uncredited)Abe Reynolds
(uncredited)
Pierre Watkin
(uncredited)
Released
en
$886,000.00
$2,600,000.00
- #new york city
- #dancing
- #musical
- #ballroom dancing
- #singing
- #black and white
- #gambler
- #based on short story
- #dance instructor
- #dance act
- #back stage
- #jilted woman
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Fine duo, fine romance, really really fine film. Gambler and dancer John "Lucky" Garnett (Fred Astaire) is engaged to Margaret Watson, being of a care free mind, and not a little gullible, John is hopelessly late for the wedding. Margaret's father is furious and demands that John go out into the real world and earn $25,000 to prove he has enough wits about him to do credit to the impending mar