Review of Les Girls

Les Girls (1957)
6/10
A MINOR KELLY-HOOFFEST...!
20 February 2024
Gene Kelly headlines this Parisian song & dance flick from 1957. Kelly runs a struggling revue which perks up considerably when he casts a trio of women (Mitzi Gaynor, Kay Kendall, Taina Elg) to join his show & it begins to take off but romantic entanglements soon start to eat away at the easy going relationship as Kelly hooks up w/Kendall & Elg (awkward since they're spoken for) leading to the break-up of the unit & a court case involving a penned memoir (which bookends the film) & its allegations. Not as fun as it could've been or lurid as the situation implies, director George Cukor (The Women/A Star is Born) makes the most of this flaccid soufflé but other than some okay hoofing, there's not much there, there. Also starring future John Steed from TV's Avengers, Patrick Macnee, as a court prosecutor.
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