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Musical | Song And Dance
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Best Actress Comedy or Musical | 1958 | Cyd
Best Motion Picture Comedy or Musical | 1958
Top Music Director | 1958 | André
Top Female Musical Performance | 1958 | Cyd
Top Musical | 1958
After this film, Fred Astaire effectively retired from musicals, preferring to concentrate on non-musical roles, though he would produce several musical specials for TV in the next few years. Astaire wouldn't make another musical until Finian's Rainbow (1968).
Cole Porter's original lyrics were slightly bowdlerized for the movie. For example, Fred Astaire sings a line in "Stereophonic Sound" about how audiences don't want to see a kiss "unless her lips are scarlet/and her mouth is five feet wide." In the original Broadway musical, the lyrics were "unless her lips are scarlet/and her bosom's five feet wide."
In addition to reviving his on stage role for this movie, George Tobias also appeared in the original film Ninotchka (1939), although in an entirely different role.
This was the last film officially credited as directed by Rouben Mamoulian. Although he was engaged and has uncredited footage in both Porgy and Bess (1959) and Cleopatra (1963), and was considered for several other film productions, most of the rest of his career consisted of directing plays on Broadway.
Janis Paige's riotous, scene-stealing performance as water-logged swimming star Peggy Dayton was a revelation to the film community, as Paige had quietly left Hollywood in 1950 following an unremarkable run as a Warner Bros. contract player. Starring Broadway roles in "Remains to Be Seen" (1951) and "The Pajama Game" (1954) inspired a new creative voice, and this movie marked Paige's comeback vehicle following a failed 1955 sitcom (It's Always Jan (1955)) and her alma mater studio's decision to cast Doris Day in The Pajama Game (1957). Paige ran with the part of Dayton, a thinly-veiled caricature of Esther Williams, and this movie opened up a whole new career for her as a voluptuary comedienne, chewing the scenery in Please Don't Eat the Daisies (1960) and Bachelor in Paradise (1961), while turning dramatic for Follow the Boys (1963) and The Caretakers (1963).
"Vassili Markovitch, Commisar of Art: I want to look somebody up. Does this office have a copy of Who's Still Who?"
"Vera: Darling, I have looked it up. Comrade Yoschenko is a woman. Vassili Markovitch, Commisar of Art: That's your opinion."
