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IT'S ALWAYS FAIR WEATHER
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CREDITS
1955, 101 minutes, Eastman Color and CinemaScope.
Producer, Arthur Freed; Directors, Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen; Screenplay, Betty Comden and Adolph Green; Cinematography, Robert Bronner; Music Direction, Andre Previn; Choreography, Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen.
CAST
Ted, Gene Kelly; Doug, Dan Dailey; Jackie, Cyd Charisse; Madeline, Dolores Gray; Angie, Michael Kidd; Tim, David Burns; Charles, Jay C. Flippen.
SONGS
March, March; Once Upon A Time; The Time For Parting; Why Are We Here (Blue Danube); Music Is Better Than Words; Situation-Wise; Stillman's Gym; I Like Myself; Baby, You Knock Me Out; Thanks A Lot, But No Thanks by Betty Comden, Adolph Green and Andre Previn.
PLOT
"A decade following the end of WWII, Kelly is a brash, fly-by-night fight manager, Dailey is a stuffy, pill-popping advertising executive, and Kidd. . .is an unpolished rube who owns a greasy spoon in Schenectady named the Cordon Bleu. At their reunion, the men discover that they can't stand each other and are not particularly happy with the way their lives have turned out, either. A television coordinator and boxing fan (Charisse) gets the bright notion of having the three veterans show up as surprise guests on "The Throb of Manhattan," a human-interest segment of a program presided over by an excessively gushy mistress of ceremonies (Gray). . ."
- Stanley Green, Hollywood Musicals Year By Year
NOTES
"The best of Gene Kelly's CinemaScope musicals. . .and one of the last of the better MGM musicals under the producership of Arthur Freed."
- Clive Hirschhorn, The Hollywood Musical
". . .a delightful musical satire."
- Variety
ACADEMY AWARD NOMINATIONS:
Story and Screenplay
Scoring Of A Musical Picture
#8 NEW YORK TIMES ANNUAL TEN BEST LIST
This was the film debut of Dolores Gray.
Michael Kidd's voice was dubbed by Jud Conlin.
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