February 10 movie: Second Chorus. Fred Astaire and Burgess Meredith star as perpetual college students who play in a college band. When they're forced to graduate, they try to get jobs with the Artie Shaw band, and vie for the affections of Paulette Goddard.
There are a couple of decent scenes, notably when Fred leads the band and tap-dances, but the movie is mostly ridiculous. I mean, the very idea of 41 year old Astaire and and 33 year old Meredith as college roommates going on their seventh year in school.
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You're right, it's not a very good movie. But I love the scene where Fred puts on the big fake Russian beard and does Cossack dancing. And it was interesting to see that they had slackers in the 40s.