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.

Plot

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

Cast

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 hoping that the same box-office magic would happen, and even, perhaps just coincidentally, gave the Astaire character the same first name 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 as Annie Oakley in Annie Get Your Gun.
Frank Loesser wrote the music.

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