It's Always Fair Weather

Ben Mankiewicz introduces It’s Always Fair Weather, 1955.

Robert Osborne Introduces It’s Always Fair Weather, 1955.

This number known as "The Binge," Andre Previn music, Gene Kelly, co-directing with Stanley Donen, as a de-mobilized WWII vet, with buddies Dan Dailey and Michael Kidd, having hit some bars after learning that his girl got married, early in It's Always Fair Weather, 1955.

Lou Lubin and Harry Wilson leading the thuggy chorus wrapping one Andre Previn, Betty Comden and Adolph Green tune (basically a fight song for fictional "Stillman's Gym"), Cyd Charisse (as sports-savvy TV producer "Jackie") crushing the next, a famous bit from the Gene Kelly/Stanley Donen-directed It's Always Fair Weather, 1955.

Perhaps the most technical of many distinctive stagings by co-directors Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly (who also co-stars), here in a three-frame number with estranged war buddies (Dan Dailey left, Michael Kidd right), to a Previn, Comden and Green tune, in It's Always Fair Weather, 1955.

World War II buddies get mixed up with gangsters and an egotistical TV star when they hold a 10-year reunion in It's Always Fair Weather (1955).