If you compare it to The Girl Hunt Ballet from The Bandwagon, a direct reference to the hard-boiled fiction that became a noir mainstay and filmed only 3 years earlier, #ItsAlwaysFairWeather is seriously dark in its motifs, not light-hearted or parodic.

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Madeleine is incredibly good at her job. That improvisation after an unplanned live gangland fight is nothing short of masterful.

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Which characteristics of Clifton Webb and Marlo Brando would be combined to make this prize of a guy? The effete murderous elegance of Waldo Lydecker with the brutal sexuality of Stanley Kowalski? Cause, ew.

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You can always count on Dolores Gray to deliver a knock 'em down musical number. #ItsAlwaysFairWeather #TCMParty

And yet it led to one of Gene Kelly's best musical sequences "I Like Myself": www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuOJ... #TCMParty #ItsAlwaysFairWeather

The idea of New York mobsters chasing Gene Kelly because he knocked out their prize fighter in a MGM musical is bizarre and dark. #ItsAlwaysFairWeather #TCMParty

The idea to do a triple split screen was Stanley Donen's. He later used a split screen in #Indiscreet to bypass the Production Code to imply Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman are in the same bed together. #ItsAlwaysFairWeather #TCMParty

Even the Technicolor palette is noired. Mauve instead of hot pink, forest green instead of Kelly, neutrals in costume and background.

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And the fixed boxing match storyline is definitional noir.

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And all set to the same kind of upbeat music. I could not love that analysis more if it brought me a giant plate of bacon in bed for my bday breakfast (which I am absolutely making Blake do, btw).

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Too bad Dolores Gray didn't make more movies. I love her so. #ItsAlwaysFairWeather #TCMParty

In some ways, you can look at #ItsAlwaysFairWeather as the noir sequel to the happy-go-lucky ‘On the Town.’ During the war, their shore leave is all high spirits. After the war, their return home is cloaked in disillusion, suspicion, corruption, self-loathing, alienation and shame. 🤷‍♂️ #TCMParty

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What TV shows did you watch him in?

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Despite the joy on the screen, Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly, both the directors of #ItsAlwaysFairWeather, did not get along. This marked the end of their creative collaboration, which began with #OnTheTown in 1949. #TCMParty

#ItsAlwaysFairWeather is a film I have only come to love over time. First it was just the roller skate bit, but now it's the satire, the realistic relationships, the happy/sad ending, Situation-Wise, and of course, the immortal Dolores Gray devouring every minute she's on screen. #TCMParty

I grew up with Dan Dailey in TV show reruns. Its always weird for me to see him as a dancer in theatricals films.

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