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Fred Astaire, Betty Hutton, Roland Young, Lucile Watson, Ruth Warrick ... see more see more... , Gregory Moffett , Barton MacLane , Shepperd Strudwick , Melville Cooper , Harold Huber , George Zucco , Eric Alden , Peggy Badley , Bobby Barber , Nana Bryant , Chester Conklin , Boyd Davis , Sayre Dearing , Bess Flowers , Sam Harris , Ida Moore , Peggy O'Neill , Ralph Peters , Rolfe Sedan , Virginia Toland , Herb Vigran , Harry Woods , Milton Delugg , Marion Gray

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 ... read more read more...(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

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Unrated, 2 hr.

Directed by: Norman Z. McLeod

Release Date: November 29, 1950

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