Let's Dance

After the enormous success of ANNIE GET YOUR GUN, Paramount decided to pair it's top musical star, Hutton, with Astaire, but the combination didn't work. Filled with cliches, a generally lackluster and witless screenplay, and a failure to ignite, LET'S DANCE has Astaire billed under Hutton. Although he attempted to save the hackneyed story with his feet and grace, it was to no avail, and the result is a flat piece of business. Astaire and Hutton are performing overseas for the troops when she reveals that she's just been married to a flier in the service. Dissolve to years later in a Boston brownstone where we discover that her husband died in action, and that she ...