It's Always Fair Weather (1955)

It's Always Fair Weather

“‘It’s Always Fair Weather’ will go down in history as the film that “could have been”. By 1955 musicals had already lost most of their economic viability due to the rise of television. If ‘It’s Always Fair Weather’ was made a few years earlier it could have been in the same leagues as ‘Singin In the Rain’ and ‘On the Town’.

The movie was originally conceived as sequel to ‘On the Town’, reuniting Gene Kelly with co stars Frank Sinatra and Jules Munshin possessed. However by 1955, Munshin no longer had box office and credibility while Sinatra was too big a star that the studio was unwilling to work with him. In their place we get Dan Dailey and Michael Kidd, who lack the chemistry Kelly’s his On the Town co stars possessed.

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Best Films of 1955 (22 movies items)

"A classic musical with one of the best song-and-dance men in the biz"

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