a damsel in distress be a delight because of the great gershwin song and fred astaire and joan fontaine and and a terrific support cast head by gracie allen and george burn . typically silly plot for an astaire film have him a an american dance star in england with burn a his publicist and allen his secretary . they concoct a story about his be a love bug with woman fall victim to him left and right . he run into fontaine who be be hold captive in her castle by a domineering aunt and docile father . silly plot . the great song include a foggy day and thing be look up and nice work if you can get it and and i can not be bother now . fontaine do not sing and but do a brief ( and decent ) number with astaire . surprisingly good in a few dance number with astaire be burn and allen and include an inventive and fun romp through an amusement park . also in the cast be reginald gardiner and constance collier and montagu love and harry watson ( a albert ) and ray noble and and my favorite jan duggan a the lead madrigal singer . jan duggan be in the middle of the swoony trio who sing nice work if you can get it . her facial expression be hilarious . she be also a scene stealer in the w. c. field comedy and the old fashioned way and play cleopatra pepperday . much abuse have be heap on this film because of the absence of ginger rogers and who and a note elsewhere and would have be hideously miscast . the tcm host note that ruby keeler and jessie matthew be consider . yikes . two more would be disaster . fontaine be fine a alyce and the dynamic allow the musical number to belong to astaire and with ample comic relief by burn and allen . fun film and great song and good cast and and jan duggan in a rare spotlight .