In this Vincente Minnelli-directed backstager, Fred Astaire dazzles in numbers set in a train station (By Myself), a penny arcade (A Shine on Your Shoes), a backlot Central Park (Dancing in the Dark) and a smoky cafe (Girl Hunt), the latter two with the incomparable Cyd Charisse. And when he, Nanette Fabray and Jack Buchanan play infants who ''hate each other very much!'' in the merry Triplets, it's more reason to love this movie very, very much. As the hallmark song which originated here goes, That's Entertainment!
Actors:
Fred Astaire, Cyd Charisse, Oscar Levant, Nanette Fabray, Jack Buchanan, Paul Bradley, Richard Alexander, James Mitchell, Robert Gist, Thurston Hall, Ava Gardner, Leroy Daniels, Jack Tesler, Dee Turnell, Judy Landon, Bert May, John Lupton, Owen McGiveney, Ann McCrea, Ted Jordan, Lyle Clark, Julie Newmeyer, Shirley Lopez, Douglas Fowley, Madge Blake, Robert Burton, Don Beddoe, Sam Hearn, Herb Vigran, Emory Parnell, Ernest Anderson, Donald Kerr, Frank Scannell, Roy Engel, Dick Sands, Eddie Simms, Wilson Wood, Al Hill, Michael Economides, George Economides, Curtis Jackson, George Sherwood, Stuart Holmes, Harry Stanton, Marion Gray, Lillian Culver, Bess Flowers, Jack Gargan, Betty Farrington, Jack Stoney, Al Ferguson, Dick Alexander, Charles Regan, Henry Corden, Fred Datig Jr., Helen Dickson, Dulce Daye, Paul Power, Smoki Whitfield, Manuel Paris, Bobby Watson, Matt Mattox, Bill Foster, Cecile Rogers, Marc Wilder, Jack Dodds, Herman Boden, Dorinda Clifton, Jack Regas, Mary Menzies, Loulie Jean Norman, Barbara Ruick, Steve Forrest, Sue Casey, Oliver Cross, Alan Marston, Lawrence Montaigne, Norman Stevens, Robert Spencer, Earl Spainard, Phil Rhodes, Hal Taggart