It's an artifact of its era, with elements such as Ray Anthony's dance band for the prom scene New York before it became overwhelmingly crass and vulgar scenes set in a studio version of France when it was still permissible to admit a liking for things Gallic (which is now tantamount to treason - How absurd!) Terry Moore before she began claiming that she'd been secretly married to Howard Hughes and Thelma Ritter allowed once more to almost steal the whole show with her slightly cynical brand of warmth. Fred Astaire, that supremely talented perfectionist, had a graceful and utterly charming partner in Leslie Caron in this oft-told fairy tale, so handsomely mounted by Twentieth Century Fox.
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