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• A Damsel in Distress

  • Ashley
  • 12/13/10

  George Burns, Gracie Allen, Fred Astaire, Joan Fontaine, Gershwin score, PG Wodehouse story, and a silly opera-singing butler: do we NEED any more reasons to watch it!?!?! :D

• Fontaine seems miscast

  • Jarrod McDonald
  • 2/17/10

  Parts of this film just don't work for me. I can't get past Fontaine in the lead romantic role. I guess I expect the girl to be able to sing and dance with Fred in his movies, and she doesn't have the talent to do either. She's a dramatic actress, very much out of her element. It's just odd seeing him dance around her or by himself, and then he sings that great Gershwin tune, you know the one ('nice work if you can get it,' etc.) and she is nowhere to be found...he has to sing it with the other characters while she's upstairs. If Ginger could not be in this one, then they should've found someone else who could do the song and dance routines. I get the feeling that Burns & Allen were inserted into the production to make up for the glaring shortcomings of the Astaire-Fontaine pairing. The weak storyline, the awkward performance of Ms. Fontaine, and I just want to say, leave that damsel in distress and go find another damsel.

• A Damsel in Distress

  • Chaquita
  • 2/16/10

  This is a wonderful movie. Great Gershwin score. Joan can't dance but so what! Fred has lot's of numbers and Burns and Allen CAN dance. In character! The Funhouse number is fabulous. Not to mention Fred singing the wonderful Gershwin Madrigals. Really great supporting cast. Don't miss this one!

• The music, the songs!!!

  • Larry
  • 12/19/09

  How many full Gershwin scores are there? This is a hidden gem, with a full 8 + minute Gershwin number (the fun house scene), a great standard (A Foggy Day in London Town)...even the incidental music is terrific. Astaire is terrific, Burns and Allen very funny, and a nice PG Woodhouse (silly) story. Highly recommended!

• A Damsel in Distress (1937)

  • Jay Higgins
  • 7/30/09

  A really fun musical comedy - Gracie Allen is priceless, i find her so funny! some very creative musical numbers, great cast, just sit back and enjoy this classic.

• IT'S ABOUT TIME!!

  • Tiffany
  • 5/28/09

  I've waited FOUR years for that movie to come on. I taped it because I refused to wait another 4 years for it to come on again.

• A Damsel in Distress

  • jo
  • 5/28/09

  Thanks! It made my day!

• Where's Ginger ?

  • Kelly
  • 5/27/09

  Burns and Allen are a great diversion, but can you imagine what Ginger could have done for this film. The film is an oddity - but still fun for the music and the cool funhouse sequence.

• Gersgwin!!

  • jo
  • 3/29/09

  This is a wonderful, fun movie - come on - Gershwin, Astaire, Burns & Allen? What more could you want? Please show it soon on TCM!!

• I love Fred Astaire!

  • Simone
  • 2/24/07

  Now, I think the story line of this movie is terrible, but the song and dance scenes were absolutely AMAZING! Astaire, Burns, and Allen were what really kept this movie going. Duh! And Montagu Love!! He played such a wonderful character. Joan Fontaine played an extremely unlikeable character and her dance scenes were comical. Just because of Astaire, Burns, Allen, and Love, I really believe this movie should be available on DVD.

• "Tap-and-Traps" solo in closing scene

  • YoungFredAstaireFan
  • 2/22/07

  I noticed 1 or 2 edits, but the improvisation (both tapping and drumming) was superb. I love the way he tossed the sticks at the end, and "struted-off", like John Travolta in the movie "Saturday Night Fever". I had always thought he got some of his tap rhythms from Jazz drumming, and this sort of confirmed it :-)

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