Give a Girl a Break
Although Stanley Donen and Gower Champion were credited with staging the musical numbers, Bob Fosse insisted on doing the choreography for his dance scenes.,The theater marquee on opening night says "Felix Jordan's New Review". It should be "New Revue".,Bob Dowdy: Wait a minute. This is show business! There's nothing you can't do in show business. You just got to try a little harder, that's all.
Leo Belney: That's all.
Ted Sturgis: That's all!
Ted Sturgis, Bob Dowdy: [singing] There's no other way, Beginning today, You're going to work, Under pressure,Featured in That's Dancing! (1985),Give A Girl A Break
Music by Burton Lane
Lyrics by Ira Gershwin
Performed by Marge Champion, Debbie Reynolds, Helen Wood and Ensemble,Don Adams (as Maxwell Smart) used the line "missed by that much" a lot and that is the way this film hit me. It had great actors, fantastic dancers, good direction and yet, for me, it was second rate. I know most of the other reviewers will disagree with me but I just couldn't get into it. Some musicals (Singin' In The Rain, Showboat, Kiss Me, Kate and a lot more) grab you from the first frame but this one just didn't do it for me. It was wonderful as always to see the Champions (I always had a crush on Marge) and Debbie Reynolds and Bob Fosse were good as always, but the film just didn't click with me, It is well worth watching at least once (you'll find it often on TCM) but I will never be able to rate it as a favorite.,