Let's Dance (1950)

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Fred Astaire and Betty Hutton make a surprisingly copacetic screen team in Let's Dance. Hutton plays a more sedate role than usual as war widow Kitty McNeil. Not wishing to have her young son Richard (Gregory Moffatt) grow up in the stiff and stuffy environs of her Boston in-laws' mansion, Kitty… More Fred Astaire and Betty Hutton make a surprisingly copacetic screen team in Let's Dance. Hutton plays a more sedate role than usual as war widow Kitty McNeil. Not wishing to have her young son Richard (Gregory Moffatt) grow up in the stiff and stuffy environs of her Boston in-laws' mansion, Kitty sneaks off with the kid and resumes her prewar show-business career. She is reunited with her USO dancing partner Donald Elwood (Astaire), who hopes to give up performing in favor of the business world. Inevitably, Kitty and Donald resume their old act, while, equally inevitably, Kitty's Bostonite grandmother-in-law Serena Everett (Lucille Watson) sets the legal wheels in motion to gain custody of little Richard. Fred Astaire manages to match Betty Hutton's patented raucousness during the hillbilly musical number "Oh, Them Dudes", though he is given the opportunity to do the sort of dancing he does best--notably a brilliant routine atop and around a piano. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

Rating, Runtime: Unrated, 2 hr.
Directed By: Norman Z. McLeod
Written By: Allan Scott, Dane Lussier
Genres: Drama, Romance, Musical & Performing Arts, Comedy

In Theaters: Nov 29, 1950 Wide

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Cast

            Fred Astaire as Donald Elwood

            Betty Hutton as Kitty McNeil Everett

            Roland Young as Mr. Edmund Pohlwhistle

            Lucile Watson as Serena Everett

            Ruth Warrick as Carola Everett

            Gregory Moffett as Richard Everett

            Barton MacLane as Larry Channock

            Shepperd Strudwick as Timothy Bryant

            Melville Cooper as Mr. Charles Wagstaffe

            Harold Huber as Marcel Cook in Club

            George Zucco as Judge

            Eric Alden as Captain

            Peggy Badley as Bubbles Malone

            Bobby Barber as Bartender

            Nana Bryant as Mrs. Bryant

            Chester Conklin as Watchman

            Boyd Davis as Butler

            Sayre Dearing as Process server

            Bess Flowers as Guest

            Sam Harris as Guest

            Ida Moore as Mrs. McGuire

            Peggy O'Neill as Woman

            Ralph Peters as Cab driver

            Rolfe Sedan as Jewelry clerk

            Virginia Toland as Elsie

            Herb Vigran as Chili parlor owner

            Harry Woods as Police Lieutenant

            Milton Delugg as Himself

            Marion Gray as Guest
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