American musical theatre maestro George Bevan (Richard Fleeshman here; Astaire in the film) is in London staging a West End show when he runs into charmingly bossy debutante Maud (Summer Strallen).
Her dragon of an aunt (Isla Blair) means to marry her to an upper-class twit, but our hero George pursues his ‘damsel in distress’ to the family pile. So begins a medieval romance.
A Damsel In Distress is an old-fashioned pleasure, says PATRICK MARMION !
There are perhaps only two words for this show: one is delightful and the other is ditzy. You cannot pin an ounce of substance on the musical based on P. G. Wodehouse’s novel with songs by George and Ira Gershwin that was turned into a 1937 film starring Fred Astaire.
It’s blissfully brainless, with frivolous gags, frothy tunes, terrific tap dancing and a preposterous story. That story is both simple and impossible to relate in full.
American musical theatre maestro George Bevan (Richard Fleeshman here; Astaire in the film) is in London staging a West End show when he runs into charmingly bossy debutante Maud (Summer Strallen).
Her dragon of an aunt (Isla Blair) means to marry her to an upper-class twit, but our hero George pursues his ‘damsel in distress’ to the family pile. So begins a medieval romance.
American musical theatre maestro George Bevan (Richard Fleeshman here; Astaire in the film) is in London staging a West End show when he runs into charmingly bossy debutante Maud (Summer Strallen).
Her dragon of an aunt (Isla Blair) means to marry her to an upper-class twit, but our hero George pursues his ‘damsel in distress’ to the family pile. So begins a medieval romance.