Sunday, July 22, 2012

Damsels In Distress



3 comments:

hidden staircase said...

i saw a trailer for this and wasnt too interested but i didn't catch that it was whit! now i gotta see it...

Joshua Blevins Peck said...

This is pure Whit--if you like Whit, your gonna like this one. Dancing too!

Eva said...

I wasn't crazy about it, unfortunately.

Btw - there is a Fred Astaire movie, Damsel in Distress, with Joan Fontaine, 1937. It was after the Ginger-fred craze had worn off a bit. Joan Fontaine was also the least experienced dance person he was ever paired with (she knew none) so they had to just make her to a few easy things and have him mostly dance around her. I wasn't able to see this one for ages because it was never ever available on DVD. Now it's been released on Warner Bros Archive Collection (they'll get around to everything eventually). Despite Fred, not a real great movie.
It does have one of my favorite songs in it, though, Things Are Looking Up, which they also used in the Whit movie.