フレッド・アステア&ジュディ・ガーランド共演。主人公の有名ダンサーが、酒場の踊り子を一流のダンサーに育てあげるまでを、ロマンスを交えて描く傑作ミュージカル。 ダンサーのドンは、パートナーに去られた意地で、酒場の踊り子ハンナを誘い新たなパートナーとしてレッスンを始める。踊りの基本も知らないハンナだったが、ドンは来年のイースターまでにハンナを一流のダンサーに仕立ててみせると誓うが…。 アーヴィング・バーリンの名曲の数々にのせ、フレッド・アステアとジュディ・ガーランドが歌い踊る、戦後日本で初めて公開された傑作ミュージカル。アカデミーミュージカル映画音楽賞受賞。
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監督: Charles Walters
脚本: Frances Goodrich / Sidney Sheldon / Albert Hackett
音楽: Irving Berlin / Johnny Green
制作: Arthur Freed
撮影監督: Harry Stradling Sr.
制作会社: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
After he's left a bit high and dry by his established partner "Nadine" (Ann Miller), acclaimed song and dance man "Hewes" (Fred Astaire) makes a rather drunken promise to their pal "Jonathan" (Peter Lawford) that her replacements are ten-a-penny. The words are barely out of his mouth when he encounters "Hannah" (Judy Garland) who's making $15 a week as a dancer on the stage in a club. She has potential, thinks he, and so he ups her wages a bit and invites her to train with him. From here on in, this plot is fairly predictable so don't expect anything remotely left-field. What we do get, though, is a classy and charming romance that's peppered with half a dozen energetically choreographed routines that prove quite a feat for a woman usually wearing six-inch heels and an ankle-length skirt! Obviously, everyone does their own singing - to the likes of Irving Berlin's "It Only Happens When I Dance With You"; "A Couple of Swells" and the title track and these songs showcase not just the powerful voice of Garland, but also of the fainter but equally soothing dulcets of the dapper Astaire too. Lawford doesn't really trouble the scorers but does enough and Miller plays the increasingly irked "Nadine' - "Shakin' the Blues Away", quite entertainingly as the film gathers pace. It's precision film-making at it's most natural, is colourful, lively, occasionally quite pithily written and well worth a watch.
