Second Chorus

Fred Astaire as a college band leader is arrested by the gaze of Paulette Goddard, the future wife of his equally attentive partner and rival Burgess Meredith, her being briefly on the arm of Frank Melton as "Stu,", the flirtatious opening of H.C. Potter's Second Chorus, 1940.

Paulette Goddard was no dancer, trained or otherwise, so in that light she does well, with Fred Astaire, with an original tune by Hal Borne and Johnny Mercer, choreographed by Hermes Pan, the first dance number in Second Chorus, 1940.

Now manager of a dance band fronted by Fred Astaire and Burgess Meredith, Paulette Goddard (as "Ellen") looks for business and plays dumb when asked about their rival, the famed Artie Shaw, portraying himself, in independent producer Boris Morros' Second Chorus, 1940.