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,… 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
- Directed By
- Norman Z. McLeod
- Written By
- Allan Scott, Dane Lussier
- Genres
- Drama, Romance, Musical & Performing Arts, Comedy
Unrated,
- In Theaters
- Nov 29, 1950 Wide
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Cast
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Fred Astaire
as Donald Elwood
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Betty Hutton
as Kitty McNeil Everett
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Roland Young
as Mr. Edmund Pohlwhistle
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Lucile Watson
as Serena Everett
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Ruth Warrick
as Carola Everett
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Gregory Moffett
as Richard Everett
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Barton MacLane
as Larry Channock
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Shepperd Strudwick
as Timothy Bryant
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Melville Cooper
as Mr. Charles Wagstaffe
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Harold Huber
as Marcel Cook in Club
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George Zucco
as Judge
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Eric Alden
as Captain
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Peggy Badley
as Bubbles Malone
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Bobby Barber
as Bartender
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Nana Bryant
as Mrs. Bryant
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Chester Conklin
as Watchman
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Boyd Davis
as Butler
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Sayre Dearing
as Process server
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Bess Flowers
as Guest
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Sam Harris
as Guest
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Ida Moore
as Mrs. McGuire
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Peggy O'Neill
as Woman
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Ralph Peters
as Cab driver
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Rolfe Sedan
as Jewelry clerk
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Virginia Toland
as Elsie
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Herb Vigran
as Chili parlor owner
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Harry Woods
as Police Lieutenant
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Milton Delugg
as Himself
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Marion Gray
as Guest
