Fred Astaire sings and dances to a score by George and Ira Gershwin, Burns and Allen provide the comedy, P.G. Wodehouse wrote the script, and still A DAMSEL IN DISTRESS was Astaire's first box-office flop. Adapted from a Wodehouse novel, DAMSEL's very witty screenplay by Wodehouse, S.K.
Lauren, and Ernest Pagano concerns an American musical comedy star and notorious ladies' man, Jerry Halliday, who, while visiting England, falls in love with Lady Alyce (Joan Fontaine) who is practically held prisoner in her own castle by her stuffy relations. After the usual complications and
gags involving a varied lot of British and American supporting characters, love conquers a...
Released:
1937
Rated:
NR
Length:
100 mins