It's Always Fair Weather (1955) on Netflix
Three World War II buddies vow to reunite in ten years. Ted Riley, Doug Hallerton and Angie Valentine keep the date at Tim's Bar & Grill, where they have nothing in common.
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Plot summary
In October 1945, three ex-G.I.s, Ted Riley, Doug Hallerton and Angie Valentine, meet at Tim's Bar & Grill before their discharge. Ted has just received a letter from his girlfriend saying she married another man, and his friends take him from bar to bar. Barman Tim bets they will forget each other; they tear a dollar bill into three parts and swear to meet again on October 11, 1955. Ten years on they keep the appointment and find how little they share. Ted, who wanted to be a lawyer, promotes fights and gambles; Doug, who planned to paint in Europe, works in advertising in Chicago; Angie, who aspired to be a chef, runs a hamburger stand in Schenectady. At a restaurant they meet Jackie Leighton, an advertising executive with an idea for a television reunion hosted by Madeline Bradville.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about It's Always Fair Weather (1955)
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- MGM studio president Dore Schary refused to hire Frank Sinatra or Jules Munshin for the planned On the Town sequel, and according to Kelly's biographer Clive Hirschhorn, Sinatra declined to return wearing a sailor suit after winning a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for From Here to Eternity.
- Betty Comden, Adolph Green and Andre Previn wrote "Love is Nothing but a Racket" as a slow ballad duet for Gene Kelly and Cyd Charisse, but Kelly objected that "nobody wants to sit still for a ballad" and recorded it at quadruple tempo; the number was cut from the film.
- To show the three leads' separate postwar careers, Donen split the CinemaScope screen into three parts, which required three cameras moving at precisely the same speed so the actors would not appear to jump across the frame.
- Another number, "Jack and the Space Giants," had Michael Kidd dancing an elaborate ten-minute routine with a group of children; it was filmed but never previewed and was cut, with Kelly saying it "didn't work out."
- Gene Kelly's tap-dance routine on roller skates to "I Like Myself" is seen as the last great dance solo of his career, and the film's reputation has grown in recent years among fans of musicals and of Kelly.
- Because of MGM president Dore Schary's austerity drive, It's Always Fair Weather was made less lavishly than An American in Paris and Singin' in the Rain, and Comden and Green's production numbers needed Schary's final approval instead of producer Arthur Freed's.
