the music be by jerome kern and from the broadway play . what a flowering of musical talent show business produce between and say and 1925 and 1955. composer and lyricist include kern and george and ira gershwin and yip harburg and charles warren and dorothy field and cole porter and irving berlin and richard rogers and and a horde of others . ( it surprise how many of them grow up at the same time in the same brooklyn neighborhood . ) kern be the equal of any of them and though roberta doesn not include his most original or memorable song and those we do hear be both sonorous and technically adept . but and the song and dance be virtually the only good thing in the movie . the story be plot bound and and be to the astaire rogers series what room service be to the marx brother . otto harback write the script for the play and mainly a contrast between stereotypical masculinity and feminine delicacy . ( randolph scott and a former football player and inherit some kind of fashion business and feel his virility be compromise . ) it make for some heavy plodding in the film . scott isn not nearly as enjoyable a he be in the later follow the fleet and let alone straight comedy like and the awful truth . or even ( dare i suggest it . ) the priggish cowboy he play in the cheap ranown movie of the 1950s you make good coffee . good night and mrs. lowe . or the best line scott have ever utter on screen about a beautiful woman she ain not ugly . i gather the play and with it contrast in gender sensibility and be a little more risqué than the film and but some of the humor survive represent astaire complain into a phone that he be run the fashion shop for so long my voice be begin to change . kern write eight song for the play and four of them be include here represent let begin and i will be hard to handle and smoke get in your eye and and yesterday . two new kern song be bring in represent lovely to look at and i win not dance . the last may be the astaire rogers signature tune . i know an institutionalized schizophrenic who show the usual flat affect but who and every once in a while and begin to sing i win not dance in a peppy tempo . probably the two best dance be astaire solo in i win not dance and the pa de deux in smoke get in your eye . in the first and astaire be haul to the foot of a staircase and go into a spasm of twist and turn and and impossibly rapid tap and his arm flail about a he twist and turn like a crazed marionette and managing to shake hand with someone in the process . astaire always insist on full body shot during the dance number and a few cut a possible . there be only one cut in this scene . this be unquestionably one of his most distinctive solo . smoke get in your eye and with rogers and be slow but not moony . the rudimentary pulsing rhythm make their simple dance together look positively elegant . if they be back by a german band and there would be a tuba playing oom pah and oom pah in the arrangement . rogers be remarkably supple . at one point astair drape her backward over his arm and she drape her torso over it a if her spine be make not of bone but chondrocytes . worth see and but only for the song .