Who was in charge of this 'mis-fire'?

In the first place you started off with a Gershwin musical, which was lost some where in the offices of MGM, where some exec's who should have known better. thought a romantic comedy took presidence over a glorious MGM musical. I'm surprised that Arthur Freed was at the controls, although he probably did'nt have the clout that he had later on at the studio.

The film could have used a different writer and director, too. I realize the director was well thought of, but it seemed to me that he called "action" and then went out to have a beer with his buddies, and let the actors go on and on and on, saying nothing, then coming back in time to say "cut". At least that's what the finished product seemed to indicate to me.

You had the prospect of a lot of wonderful Gershwin music, but instead you were left with a seemingly never ending, tedious, boring, supposed romantic comedy, which was'nt as funny as they thought it might be. I mean the movie could have ended at any of several points in the film, which could have ended the agony of a stupid script.

The two songs by Brown/Freed were quite good and at the last minute, they even had a Kern/Hammerstein song smuggled in, which only illustrated the need for more music, instead of the lanquid story line which we had to get through, I mean, was the Robert Young character supposed to be an indiot?

What a waste of Eleanor Powell, even Red Skelton, and O'Brien, and Dan Dailey, too.

I see where Ms Powell danced with a dog long before Gene Kelly danced with a mouse. They were both great for their time and even now,too.