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Follow the Fleet (1936)
Genre:
Romance,
Comedy,
Musical,
Musical Romance.
Director:
Mark Sandrich.
Actors:
Fred Astaire,
Ginger Rogers,
Randolph Scott,
Harriet Hilliard,
Astrid Allwyn,
Betty Grable,
Harry Beresford,
Russell Hicks,
Brooks Benedict,
Ray Mayer,
Lucille Ball,
Constance Bergen,
Edmund Burns,
Lita Chevret,
Bud Geary,
Huntly Gordon,
Jane Hamilton,
Joy Hodges,
Frank Jenks,
Maxine Jennings,
Thelma Leeds,
Doris Lloyd,
George Lollier,
George Magrill,
Tony Martin,
Frank Mills,
Frank Moran,
James Pierce,
Addison Randall,
Herbert Rawlinson,
Gertrude Short,
Frank Sully,
Kay Sutton,
Eddie Tamblyn,
Max Wagner,
Eric Wilton,
Allen Wood.
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Runtime: 110:00 min.
Codec: dvd-rip
Filesize: 1402.88 Mb
Storyline:
This lesser Astaire/Rogers vehicle is one of several screen versions of the venerable Hubert Osborne stage play Shore Leave. For reasons unknown, Fred and Ginger are virtually supporting players here, spending most of their time trying to patch up the romance between Fred's fellow sailor Randolph Scott and Ginger's sister Harriet Hilliard (better known as Harriet Nelson, of Ozzie and Harriet fame). One of the sillier aspects of the plot hinges on raising enough money to renovate a broken-down old ship; to do this, Fred and Ginger stage a lengthy musical number that must have cost five times as much money as they raised! But that number, a languorous dance rendition of Irving Berlin's "Let's Face the Music and Dance", compensates for all the nonsense that has gone before. One fringe benefit of Follow the Fleet is spotting two fresh-faced starlets named Betty Grable and Lucille Ball.
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