Second Chorus

Musical with Fred Astaire that is set on a college campus where two trumpet players go after the same girl., A romantic triangle develops among members of a swing band., The story takes place in 1854. A group of cavalry soldiers go to Ft. Levenworth and are assigned to capture John Brown, a radical revolutionary, whose actions foreshadow the beginning of the American civil war., Two trumpet players in the famous Artie Shaw band vie for the same girl., Comedy about two music students who, rather than face the responsibilities of life, repeatedly fail their exams so that they can stay in college. The students change their attitude, however, when they meet a woman who agrees to be their manager and both attempt to woo her as a way of getting a job in Artie Shaw’s band. Featuring the Oscar-nominated Would You Like to Be the Love of My Life?, In this musical, Fred Astaire and Burgess Meredith appear as two rival trumpet players who would like to join the Artie Shaw Orchestra, and who’d each like to become the beau to the lovely Paulette Goddard. She agrees to be the two fellas’ manager and is not so interested in love. She eventually falls for Astaire. [In real life she married Burgess Meredith.] There are plenty of musical numbers featuring Astaire and the Artie Shaw Orchestra., Charley Sloan, a once-brilliant attorney, now battaling alchoism, rises to meet the challenge of his life and face the demons of his past by defending the daughter of a woman he once loved against murder charges.