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...Dance" must have been an uneasy routine for Fred Astaire, as it certainly will be for a good many audiences. Astaire, of course, is his incomparable self, graceful, debonair, amusing. But he has been teamed with Betty Hutton who, unfortunately, is neither a dancer nor a lady. Astaire deserves a partner who is both...
...Dance (Paramount) teams Fred Astaire with Betty Hutton in a talky musicomedy that takes its plot too seriously and its stars' special talents too lightly. As a war widow fighting her husband's stuffy family for custody of her son, Singer Hutton takes refuge in a nightclub and renews an old romance with Hoofer Astaire. Boy loses girl not once but twice, the child is seized or kidnaped three times, and the story is cluttered with what seems to be all the supporting players on the Paramount...
...should be surprised to find Actress Hutton a match for Astaire in vitality, but she also proves adept at dogging his dancing steps in their single full-blown number together. On her own, she gets a chance to hurtle through some galvanic shenanigans, practically no chance to show her more impressive ability as an actress. Astaire's feet seem more facile than ever. In one solo he does a delightful ballet version of Jack and the Beanstalk while singing a bright lyric by Frank Loesser. In both he is nimble and ingenious enough to stop the show. Unfortunately...
After seeing Annie Get Your Gun, North Platte, Neb. Banker William H. McDonald, 89, who once lent Buffalo Bill Cody $4,000 to start his first traveling show, had a word of criticism: Ethel Merman and Betty Hutton were far more lively than the real Annie Oakley. As he remembered her, "she was a nice, quiet little woman...
When Prince Igor Troubetzkoy threatened court action to make his wife come home and act like a wife, Dime-Store Heiress Barbara Hutton declared that her fourth husband was no bargain either. Said Barbara from Madrid: "He's one of the cheapest men I've ever met in my life. He only married me for my money...