EASTER PARADE

(1949, Charles Walters) Crushed when dancing partner Ann Miller decides to shake the blues away and go solo, despairing Fred Astaire looks for a new face and gets.. Judy Garland! – with their hobo duet “A Couple of Swells” an all-time peak. Shown with Merry Mannequins (1937): in a high Art Deco setting, two department store dummies come to life and dance like Fred and Ginger! Approx. 117 min. 35mm.

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"A fantastic movie, featuring two of the finest motion picture performers ever, Astaire and Judy Garland, in their only cinematic pairing"
– The Hollywood Reporter

"The title song finale, evoking Fifth Avenue on Easter Sunday back in the days when the carriage-trade throughfare was still lined with millionaires' mansions is the perfect note on which to end one of the happiest of Arthur Freed's MGM musicals."
– BBC

“To see it now is to marvel at their talents, and that of Irving Berlin.” 
– David Shipman