With the line, 'Gosh, with all this raw talent around, why can't us kids get together and put ourselves on a show,' this musical provides a sophisticated tribute to all the innocent backstage musicals that preceded it. Twenty years after Fred Astaire made his debut in Dancing Lady, this film gave him perhaps his best role in one of the best movies of his career, as a fading Hollywood musical star persuaded to make a comeback. Cyd Charisse (in her first musical starring role and dubbed for singing by India Adams) plays a ballet dancer tempted by the thought of a stage musical, and Ava Gardner makes the briefest of guest appearances, as herself, stepping from a train. Out of all the film's songs, only one was new - 'That's Entertainment', written in just 30 minutes by Arthur Schwartz and Howard Dietz. But it's the novelty number 'Triplets', performed by Astaire, Jack Buchanan and Nanette Fabray, that steals the show.

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