Saturday Night Cinema
Second Chorus

The Second Chorus with the gorgeous Goddard (a personal fave), the genius of Shaw and a cavalcade of stars. The music is the joy; the plot, alas is not.

Second Chorus (1940) is a Hollywood musical comedy film starring Fred Astaire, Burgess Meredith, Paulette Goddard, Artie Shaw, 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.

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From a dance perspective, however, it greatly
surpasses either Dancing Lady (1933) or Finian's Rainbow (1968) and benefits from the musical presence of a leading swing band in its prime—Artie Shaw and his orchestra.[citation needed]
Astaire admitted that he was attracted to the film by the opportunity
to "dance-conduct this real swingin' outfit". From a musical
standpoint, the film contains a fine partnered dance, an important Astaire tap solo, an Academy Award nominated song and a classic extended piece by Artie Shaw and his orchestra.

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." (Wikiquote: Fred Astaire)

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