Second Chorus

Second Chorus 1940 is a Hollywood musical comedy film starring Paulette Goddard and Fred Astaire and featuring Artie Shaw, Burgess Meredith and Charles Butterworth, with music by Artie Shaw, Bernie Hanighen, Hal Borne and lyrics by Johnny Mercer. The film was directed by H. C. Potter and produced independently for Paramount Pictures by Boris Morros.

Danny ONeill Fred Astaire, and Hank Taylor Burgess Meredith are friends and rival trumpeters, with ONeills Perennials, a college band. Both of them have managed to prolong their college career by failing seven years in a row. At a performance, Ellen Miller Paulette Goddard catches Danny and Hanks eye. She serves them a collection notice for her boss, a debt collector, but the fast talking ONeill and Taylor soon have her working for them as their manager.Tired of losing gigs to the Perennials, Artie Shaw, playing himself, comes to woo Ellen away to be his booking manager. She tries to get Danny and Hank an audition for Shaws band, but their jealous hijinks get them both fired. ........

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