About half as good as director George Stevens' other musical with Astaire, "Swing Time". Aside from an inspired, Busby Berkeley-ish, surreal dance number set in a funhouse and two great Gershwin songs ("Nice Work If You Can Get It" and "Things Are Looking Up") there is nothing that rises above the mildly pleasant or unsurprising unless, that is, you were not aware that George and Gracie were pretty decent hoofers, especially Gracie. And judging from the non musical dialogue it's a good thing P. G. Wodehouse stuck to writing novels (when he wasn't broadcasting for Nazi Germany). Also, it is most dispiriting to see a great actress like Joan Fontaine stuck in a dull love interest role that could and should have been outsourced to Helen Vinson or Margaret Lindsey. C plus.
Review of A Damsel in Distress
