Let's Dance [Blu-ray]

Director: Norman Z. McLeod Norman Z. McLeod

Overview

Fred Astaire and Betty Hutton make a surprisingly copacetic screen team in Let's Dance. Hutton plays a more sedate role than usual as war widow Kitty McNeil. Not wishing to have her young son Richard (Gregory Moffatt) grow up in the stiff and stuffy environs of her Boston in-laws' mansion, Kitty sneaks off with the kid and resumes her prewar show-business career. She is reunited with her USO dancing partner Donald Elwood (Astaire), who hopes to give up performing in favor of the business world. Inevitably, Kitty and Donald resume their old act, while, equally inevitably, Kitty's Bostonite grandmother-in-law Serena Everett (Lucille Watson) sets the legal wheels in motion to gain custody of little Richard. Fred Astaire manages to match Betty Hutton's patented raucousness during the hillbilly musical number "Oh, Them Dudes", though he is given the opportunity to do the sort of dancing he does best--notably a brilliant routine atop and around a piano.

Product Details

Release Date:	02/13/2024
UPC:	0738329265649
Original Release:	1950
Rating:	NR
Source:	Kl Studio Classics
Language:	English
Time:	1:52:00
Sales rank:	12,864

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Fred Astaire	Donald Elwood
Betty Hutton	Kitty McNeil
Roland Young	Edmund Pohlwhistle
Ruth Warrick	Carola Everett
Lucile Watson	Serena Everett
Gregory Moffett	Richard Everett
Barton MacLane	Larry Channock
Shepperd Strudwick	Timothy Bryant
Melville Cooper	Mr. Charles Wagstaffe
Harold Huber	Marcel, Cook in Club
George Zucco	Judge
Peggy Badley	Bubbles Malone
Virginia Toland	Elsie
Sayre Dearing	Process Server
Ida Moore	Mrs. McGuire
Nana Bryant	Mrs. Bryant
Boyd Davis	Butler
Bobby Barber	Bartender
Herb Vigran	Chili Parlor Owner
Rolfe Sedan	Jewelry Clerk
Ralph Peters	Cab Driver
Paul A. Pierce	Square Dance Caller
Eric Alden	Captain
Milton DeLugg	Himself
Harry Woods	Police Lieutenant
Chester Conklin	Watchman
Major Sam Harris	Guest
Bess Flowers	Guest
Marion Gray	Guest
Peggy O'Neill	Woman

Technical Credits

Robert Fellows	Producer
Norman Z. McLeod	Director