Easter Parade-Has anyone seen the movie Easter Parade and what was your favorite part of the film?

I loved all part of this movie,


Easter Parade is a 1948 musical film starring Fred Astaire and Judy Garland. It features music by Irving Berlin, including some of Astaire and Garland's best-known songs, such as "Steppin' Out With My Baby" and "We're a Couple of Swells."





The film won the 1948 Academy Award for Best Scoring of a Musical Picture. It also received the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Written American Musical.





Don Hewes (Fred Astaire), a Broadway star, is out buying Easter presents for his sweetheart, starting with a hat and some flowers ("Happy Easter"). Then he goes into a toy shop, and buys a cuddly Easter rabbit, after persuading a young boy to part with it and buy a set of drums instead ("Drum Crazy"). He takes the gifts to his dancing partner, Nadine Hale (Anne Miller). She explains that she has had an offer for a show, which would feature her as a solo star. Don tries to change her mind, and it looks as if he has succeed.

Easter Parade-Has anyone seen the movie Easter Parade and what was your favorite part of the film?
I love the part where Judy Garland is trying to prove to Fred Astaire that she can make men look at her. So, she walks about a foot ahead of him, and, sure enough, men begin giving her double takes. Not one passes her without looking at her, most with a startled or bemused look. Then, the camera shows her from the front. As each man gets closer, she makes weird faces! *giggle*





I think that is the cutest, funniest bit because he decides that perhaps she WILL make a good partner after all.





Runnerup might be when she wears the feathery dress that starts shedding during one of their dance numbers. This is based on a routine Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire did once; Ginger wore a similar dress, and it, too, started shedding!





Also very amusing is the musical number "The Girl on the Magazine Cover", or at least I recall it being funny. Don't they spoof this type of number? Perhaps I'm mistaking it for another film, but I keep thinking that the rhymes the women say are very funny~intentionally.





Can you tell that I really enjoy this film? I didn't see it listed anywhere on the cable listings. Maybe it will be shown today. (It's nearly 4 a.m. Sunday!) // Yeah! TCM will be showing it~if I manage to wake up by then. If I go to bed within the next 10 minutes or so...
Reply:No Spencer I haven't seen it. I'll look for it.