Musicals are not generally renowned for sophisticated plots, but this one isn't bad. Old hand Bing Crosby and the new television star played by Gene Kelly contemporary Donald O'Connor are putting on a new show. The only problem is they have each signed a leading lady, so who is going to deliver the bad news and to whom?
That's about all you need to know, aside from that there are some decent wisecracks, one or two passable comedy scenes, the music largely from Cole Porter, and not least some fantastic dancing particularly by O'Connor, but also by Mitzi Gaynor and French ballet star Zizi Jeanmaire. Although Crosby has long departed this Earth and O'Connor has been dead for over a decade, the two ladies are still with us; Gaynor is 84, and Mademoiselle Jeanmaire a sprightly 92. They would probably agree that "they don't make them like that anymore".
That's about all you need to know, aside from that there are some decent wisecracks, one or two passable comedy scenes, the music largely from Cole Porter, and not least some fantastic dancing particularly by O'Connor, but also by Mitzi Gaynor and French ballet star Zizi Jeanmaire. Although Crosby has long departed this Earth and O'Connor has been dead for over a decade, the two ladies are still with us; Gaynor is 84, and Mademoiselle Jeanmaire a sprightly 92. They would probably agree that "they don't make them like that anymore".