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Show "The Sky's The Limit" Shows Fred Astaire With New Dance Partner "The Sky's the Limit," coming to the Rivoli Theatre Sunday, Monday Mon-day and Tuesday, teams Fred Astaire As-taire for the first time with Joan Leslie in a tuneful romantic offering offer-ing which deals with an A. V. G. pilot's adventures during a brief leave in New York City. Robert Benchley heads the supporting sup-porting cast as a millionaire publisher pub-lisher and Miss Leslie's employer, the heroine being a roving photographer photog-rapher for one of Benchley's magazines. mag-azines. Astaire, wearing civilian clothes to avoid notoriety during his few days of leave in the metropolis, me-tropolis, falls hard for the girl and tries his best to intrigue her. He does so, successfully dodging all her efforts to find him a job, but then he discovers that Bench-ley Bench-ley also is in love with her. Feeling Feel-ing that a flier in wartime has no business asking a girl to wait for him, Astaire tries to further Benchley's suit. The heroine doesn't see it that way, and things build up to a gay climax of cross-purposes and misunderstandings. Two striking dance routines by the two stars, two solo dances by Fred himself and four new hit tunes by Johnny Mercer and Harold Har-old Arlen are featured in the picture. pic-ture. "My Shining Hour," "I've Got a Lot in Common with You," and "One for My Baby and One for the Road," are the hit song numbers, the music being that of Freddie Slack and his orchestra. Fred and Joan dance one of their spectacular routines at a big ser- vice men's canteen, and the other in Benchley's luxurious penthouse, while Fred's big solo, "One for the Road," winds up with a startling performance on the top of a nightclub night-club bar. Robert Ryan and Richard Davies portray a pair of Astaire's Flying Tiger pals and Elizabeth Patterson, Patter-son, Marjorie Gateson and Clarence Clar-ence Kolb have important supporting support-ing roles. David Hempctead produced pro-duced the film, which was directed by E. H. Griffith from an original screenplay by Frank Fenton and Lynn Root. |