フレッド・アステア&ジュディ・ガーランド共演。主人公の有名ダンサーが、酒場の踊り子を一流のダンサーに育てあげるまでを、ロマンスを交えて描く傑作ミュージカル。
ダンサーのドンは、パートナーに去られた意地で、酒場の踊り子ハンナを誘い新たなパートナーとしてレッスンを始める。踊りの基本も知らないハンナだったが、ドンは来年のイースターまでにハンナを一流のダンサーに仕立ててみせると誓うが…。
アーヴィング・バーリンの名曲の数々にのせ、フレッド・アステアとジュディ・ガーランドが歌い踊る、戦後日本で初めて公開された傑作ミュージカル。アカデミーミュージカル映画音楽賞受賞。
Lovely Linda Mason has crooner Jim Hardy head over heels, but suave stepper Ted Hanover wants her for his new dance partner after fickle Lila Dixon gives him the brush. Jim's supper club, Holiday Inn, is the setting for the chase by Hanover and his manager.
Josh and Dinah Barkley are a successful musical-comedy team, known for their stormy but passionate relationship. Dinah feels overshadowed by Josh and limited by the lighthearted musical roles he directs her in. So she decides to stretch her skills by taking a role in a serious drama, directed by another man.
In 1911, minor stage comic, Vernon Castle meets the stage-struck Irene Foote. A few misadventures later, they marry and then abandon comedy to attempt a dancing career together. While they're performing in Paris, an agent sees them rehearse and starts them on their brilliant career as the world's foremost ballroom dancers. However, at the height of their fame, World War I begins.
When the US Navy fleet docks at San Francisco, sailor Bake Baker tries to rekindle the flame with his old dancing partner, Sherry Martin, while Bake's buddy Bilge Smith romances Sherry's sister, Connie. But it's not all smooth sailing—Bake has a habit of losing Sherry's jobs for her and, despite Connie's dreams, Bilge is not ready to settle down.
'Popito' and 'Olivita' are a dance team, performing at Wimpy's Cafe. Bluto is jealous, and heckles and otherwise disrupts the act.
In this Pete Smith Specialties short, two professional dancers beautifully demonstrate the rumba and conga while actors humorously display some incorrect techniques for those dances.
The plot is a loose autobiographical interpretation of the life of Vernon and Irene Castle, interspersed among a typical melodrama of the period