Shine on my shoes fred astaire biography

The Band Wagon (1953) is director Vincente Minnelli's and MGM's great movie musical (with Michael Kidd as choreographer) under the guidance of MGM producer Arthur Freed.

Shine on my shoes fred astaire biography

The "backstage" movie musical was satirically self-mocking, and also took shots at show business and those who were involved in musical-dance productions. It was a light-hearted look at how an entertaining musical show could be foolishly updated, reinterpreted and rewritten as a highly-dramatic, ill-fated Faustian tale.

At first, the resultant artsy and semi-dramatic musical product was a major flop, but then, through further revisions, it became a much improved and bigger musical hit. The film's insightful commentary illustrated the constant friction between two "genres" or art-forms of entertainment - serious drama and frothy musicals.

The vibrant film's witty screenplay by Betty Comden and Adolph Green presented a step-by-step survey of all the stages of putting on a theatric