Paramount
March 28, 1957
Musical, Comedy, Romance
DVD
B-
B-
I'd heard of this movie for years but didn't actually know much about it until I watched it over the last few days. It turns out to be an uneven-- at times annoying or boring, at others charming and stunning-- movie, which pairs Fred Astaire and Audrey Hepburn romantically at a time he was about double her age, but Kay Thompson steals every scene she's in, especially the musical numbers. The '50s take on beatnik philosophers vs. the fashion industry is delightfully dated, the sex-role propaganda, less delightful. Stanley Donen directed, six years after Astaire's Royal Wedding and the year before Damn Yankees.
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