A marvelously delightful 1930's style song and dance spectacular, the likes of which would be wiped away by the December bombing of Pearl Harbor, Second Chorus finds Fred Astaire as a struggling bandleader chased by a collection agent - Paulette. She serves the papers, he chases her. She wangles him an audition with Artie Shaw, which Burgess Meredith hilariously sabotages. A rich sugar daddy (the marvelous Charles Butterworth) smoothes things over with Artie, and through it all, Fred and Paulette dance and sing. For what more could you ask?
