Amazon.com video review:
Fred Astaire dances on the ceiling in this 1951 Alan Jay
Lerner musical for MGM, directed by Stanley Donen (Singin' in the
Rain). The appealing story finds Astaire as part of a
brother-and-sister act (along with Jane Powell) that travels to London
at the time of Queen Elizabeth II's wedding. Astaire and Powell each
find romances that threaten to break up the act, but that's mostly fun
window dressing in a movie better known for some truly creative
sequences made vivid by Donen, including Astaire's famous dance with a
hat rack and his duet with Powell, "How Could You Believe Me When I
Said I Loved You (When You Know I've Been a Liar All My Life)?"
--Tom Keogh
