Second Chorus
Charles Butterworth
['austin trevor', 'kunal nayyar', 'leos carax', 'francesca annis', 'harry andrews', 'robert pattinson', 'lou tellegen', 'luigi comencini', 'pat nixon', 'bryan greenberg', 'dwight yoakam', 'mabel normand', 'beverly bayne', 'deanna durbin', 'ruth gordon', 'jimmy shergill', 'tim mcintire', 'victor wong', 'soni razdan', 'deb mukherjee', 'james garner', 'kalabhavan mani', 'james woods', 'michele placido', 'lori petty', 'elizabeth banks', 'will smith', 'dietrich', 'dolph lundgren', 'brandon mychal smith', 'mark harmon', 'noble willingham', 'greta gynt', 'aaron yan', 'erland josephson', 'earl holliman', 'jayanthi', 'sharmila tagore', 'kevin kline', 'allen ginsberg', 'linus torvalds', 'romane bohringer', 'kamna jethmalani', 'john houseman', 'marie eline', 'june allyson', 'campbell gullan', 'conway tearle', 'doon mackichan', 'piper', 'flor silvestre', 'jason bateman', 'jodie foster', 'patricia charbonneau', 'viveca lindfors', 'ingrid pitt', 'lynn whitfield', 'briana banks', 'theodore roberts', 'aud egede nissen', 'tony goldwyn', 'zasu pitts', 'rahul roy', 'sarika', 'nirosha', 'raaj kumar', 'bob einstein', 'randle ayrton', 'sara gilbert', 'tim reid', 'hugh bonneville', 'regis philbin', 'susannah york', 'steven berkoff', 'lou holtz', 'sean lock', 'frankie howerd', 'george formby', 'harris yulin', 'gary nelson', 'francesco guccini', 'dilip prabhavalkar', 'mcfly', 'sayaji shinde', 'jagathi sreekumar', 'fardeen khan', 'derek yee', 'hugh williams', 'michael shannon', 'britney spears', 'nino castelnuovo', 'soundarya', 'kenneth cope', 'mae clarke', 'bruce lee', 'rosalind russell', 'tina fey', 'vidhu vinod chopra', 'tony danza']
Second Chorus
Second Chorus (1940) is a Hollywood musical comedy film starring Paulette Goddard and Fred Astaire and featuring Artie Shaw, Burgess Meredith and Charles Butterworth, with music by Artie Shaw, Bernie Hanighen, Hal Borne and lyrics by Johnny Mercer. The film was directed by H. C. Potter and produced independently for Paramount Pictures by Boris Morros. In a 1968 interview, Astaire described this effort as "The worst film I ever made". Astaire admitted that he was attracted to the film by the opportunity to "dance-conduct this real swingin' outfit". In an interview shortly before his death, Shaw admitted this film put him off acting. Astaire and Shaw shared a striking series of personality traits in common: an obsessive perfectionism and seemingly endless appetite for retakes, profound musicality and love of jazz, personal modesty and charm, and in a late interview Shaw expressed his opinion of Astaire: "Astaire really sweat - he toiled. He was a humorless Teutonic man, the opposite of his debonair image in top hat and tails. I liked him because he was an entertainer and an artist. There's a distinction between them. An artist is concerned only with what is acceptable to himself, where an entertainer strives to please the public. Astaire did both. Louis Armstrong was another one." The film's copyright lapsed in 1967 and it is now in the public domain, with the result that prior to its recent restoration, it has tended to circulate in seriously degraded prints.