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A Damsel in Distress

A Damsel in Distress

1937
Romance, Comedy
1h 41m
Lady Alyce Marshmorton must marry soon, and the staff of Tottney Castle have laid bets on who she'll choose... (imdb)
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A Damsel in Distress

1937
Romance, Comedy
1h 41m
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Avg Percentile 55.19% from 53 total ratings

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Rated 29 May 2009
5
80th
So much fun.
Rated 30 May 2009
64
21st
A watered down perversion of everything that makes Wodehouse great. The sophisticated, intelligent, upper-crusty, British dialog has been sacked for an American friendly, and much less entertaining version. Fred Astaire's song and dance are entertaining, but only serve to side track. What could have been a hilarious and meticulously crafted movie turned out to be some less than average fare with tap dancing and song.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
76
87th
Extremely silly but some great stuff here. And OK, Joan Fontaine may not have Rogers's lively personality, but she's lovely and loveable in this.
Rated 15 Aug 2014
60
51st
Good choreography. Bad everything else. Really needed a better female lead.
Rated 18 Dec 2013
70
96th
A little weird watching Fred Astaire without Ginger. His romance is with Joan Fontaine in this one and she is in no way a good replacement for her. This becomes almost a Fred Astaire solo effort, with a dancing drum solo as the climax! Astaire does have excellent support from the husband/wife duo of George Burns & Gracie Allen! It's they that join his dance routines and they almost manage to keep up with the master! They get plenty of spotlight with Allen being in brilliant numskull mood.
Rated 01 Dec 2018
47
42nd
Worth seeing for George Burns and Gracie Allen...only. The rest is just silly... and not particularly fun silly.
Rated 07 Jan 2021
6
44th
Nothing particularly memorable in terms of singing and dancing - the plot and characters are daft.
Rated 29 Aug 2022
77
54th
Astaire cannot not be great and the film is not devoid of good humour, but would have expected more from the script.

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