One of the least shown (hardly at all theatrically since its original release) of all Fred Astaire movies, and with some cause, though none of his films is negligible. Here, after his triumph in Blue Skies for Paramount, the maestro is inexplicably second-billed to the studio's blonde bombshell Betty Hutton, and their styles simply don't mesh at all. A cowboy dance routine is particularly embarrassing, with Hutton firing on all cylinders and the suave Astaire reduced to mere background. The plot's a nothing about a war widow and her son, but watch for Astaire's stunning Piano Dance sequence, the minor Frank Loesser score and some nice Technicolor.

Years after the death of her husband, Kitty McNeil takes her son and flees from the home of her wealthy and controlling mother-in-law. Alone and jobless in New York, she runs into an old flame, her USO partner Donald Elwood, who agrees to help her fight for custody of the child.