Easter Parade (film)

Easter Parade is a 1948 American musical film starring Judy Garland, Fred Astaire and Peter Lawford, featuring music by Irving Berlin, including some of Astaire and Garlands bestknown songs, such as Easter Parade, Steppin Out with My Baby, and Were a Couple of Swells.

In 1912, Broadway star Don Hewes Fred Astaire is buying Easter presents for his sweetheart, starting with a hat and some flowers Happy Easter. He goes into a toy shop and buys a cuddly Easter rabbit, after persuading a young boy to part with it and buy a set of drums instead Drum Crazy. Hewes takes the gifts to his dancing partner, Nadine Hale Ann Miller, who explains that she has an offer for a show that would feature her as a solo star. Don tries to change her mind and it looks as if he has succeeded It Only Happens When I Dance With You, until Dons best friend, Johnny Peter Lawford, turns up. Nadine reveals that she and Don are no longer a team and it becomes obvious that Nadine is attracted to Johnny. She does continue to try and pursue him, but he politely refuses her relationship out of respect for Don.Angry, Don leaves to drown his sorrows at a bar. Johnny follows him and tries to persuade him to talk to Nadine, but to no avail Don brags that he does not need Nadine and that he can make a star of the next dancer he meets. After Johnny leaves, he picks out one of the girls dancing on the stage, Hannah Brown Judy Garland, and tells her to meet him for rehearsal the next day. Hannah then performs a duet, singing a musical number with a member of the band Norman S. Barker on trombone, I Want To Go Back To Michigan. The next morning, Don tries to turn Hannah into a copy of Nadine, teaching her to dance the same way, buying her dresses in a similar style and giving her an exotic stage name, Juanita. However, Hannah makes several mistakes at their first performance and the show is a fiasco. ........

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