Trivia buffs will get a lot of mileage out of this. Sample; in the first nightclub scene the background music is Three Little Words and Can't Get Out Of This Mood. Fred Astaire made 11 musicals at RKO and 11 more at MGM. This is an RKO film - Astaire's return to the studio where he made his name as a film rather than a stage star - and they're playing a song that will be the title of a future Astaire film at MGM. Sample; having walked Joan Leslie home Astaire notices a 'Vacancy' sign and after Leslie has gone in he rents a room in the same building from landlady Elizabeth Patterson. Some fourteen years later in the film version of Pal Joey, Frank Sinatra walks Kim Novak home to her rooming house in San Francisco, notes a Room For Rent sign in the window and, after Novak has gone inside he rents a room from - you've guessed it - that same Elizabeth Patterson. In terms of statistics this has to be one of the highest percentages in terms of songs. Only three of the songs Harold Arlen and Johnny Mercer wrote were used in the final cut but two of them, My Shining Hour and One For My Baby went on to become standards which are still around today more than half a century later. Nothing with Fred Astaire in it is ever a complete loss but he could have been given more to do in terms of both song and dance. It's not as bad as Second Chorus but nevertheless it is in the bottom half of the 31 musicals made by Astaire.
Review of The Sky's the Limit
