to be brief and the story be paper thin and you can see the end come from a mile away and but gene kelly and rita hayworth and and an impossibly young phil silver keep the movie afloat throughout and at time lift it right up into the air . a few of the song be terrible clunkers ( poor john be a train wreck ) but most of them be great fun and and the scene of hayworth perform on the absurdly huge set for kelly rival have to be see to be believe . another treat be the perfect faux nyc set in the best hollywood tradition . another attraction and if you consider such thing attraction and be the howlingly awful male chivalry toward woman . the oily leering and transparent obsequiousness that pass for male charm back then ( in the movie and at least ) be present in it most lurid form here . some of the men be about like a cartoon wolf . one minor disappointment be eve arden trap in a role so minor that she barely have a chance to do anything . i can imagine a lot of potential comic interplay between her and silver a missed opportunity .