Who was Fred Astaire's dancing partner in the musical film The Band Wagon
The Band Wagon The Band Wagon The Band Wagon is a 1953 American musical-comedy film directed by Vincente Minnelli, starring Fred Astaire and Cyd Charisse. It tells the story of an aging musical star who hopes a Broadway show will restart his career. However, the play's director wants to make it a pretentious retelling of the "Faust" legend and brings in a prima ballerina who clashes with the star. Along with "Singin' in the Rain" (1952), it is regarded as one of the finest of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer musicals, although it was only a modest box-office success on first release. The songs were written
The Band Wagon (musical) and scenic design by Albert R. Johnson. The cast included Fred Astaire, Adele Astaire, Helen Broderick, Tilly Losch, and Frank Morgan. According to Steven Suskin, "very few people are around who saw "The Band Wagon", but they all seem to insist that it was the finest Broadway revue ever." According to Furia and Lasser, "The Band Wagon" is "arguably the greatest of the 'little' revues of the 1930s". Ken Bloom states that "The Band Wagon" "is considered the greatest of all revues." The show introduced one of the best Schwartz-Dietz songs, "Dancing in the Dark", which was also the title