THE BELLE OF NEW YORK

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CREDITS

1952, 82 minutes, Technicolor.
Producer, Arthur Freed; Director, Charles Walters; Screenplay, Robert O'Brien and Irving Elinson; Cinematography, Robert Planck; Music Director, Adolph Deutsch; Choreography, Robert Alton.

CAST

Charlie Hill, Fred Astaire; Angela Bonfils, Vera-Ellen; Mrs. Phineas Hill, Marjorie Main; Max Ferris, Keenan Wynn; Elsie Wilkins, Alice Pearce; Gilfred Spivak, Clinton Sundberg; Dixie McCoy, Gale Robbins.

SONGS

Seeing's Believing; Baby Doll; The Bride's Wedding Song; When I'm Out With the Belle of New York; Bachelor's Dinner Song; Oops; Naughty But Nice; I Wanna Be a Dancin' Man by Johnny Mercer and Harry Warren; Let A Little Love Come In by Roger Edens.

PLOT SYNOPSIS

"Vera-Ellen is a strong-minded Bowery mission worker who soon has playboy Astaire trying to reform his dissolute ways to win her. Astaire and Vera-Ellen sing and dance on ice, on sand, on rooftops and even on air while Marjorie Main and Keenan Wynn provide the comedy."
- Liner Notes from Turner/MGM/UA Laserdisc

NOTES

". . .first-class choreography. . .[and] gorgeous settings. . .Charles Walters's direction had the lush MGM 'feel' to it. . ."
- Clive Hirschhorn, The Hollywood Musical

"A film musical usually can get by with the lightest plot if the dance numbers and tunes are sock, but Belle has an even lighter plot than usual, and the numbers are just ordinary. It's all done pleasantly but not of a quality that rates more than passing interest."
- Variety

Vera-Ellen's vocals were dubbed by Anita Ellis.

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