The story is set in London in 1947 at the time of the wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Philip Mountbatten. Astaire and Powell play siblings in a song-and-dance duo, echoing the real-life theatrical relationship of Fred and Adele Astaire.
American sibling song-and-dance team Tom (Fred Astaire) and Ellen Bowen (Jane Powell) are in London in 1947, when all of England is in a tizzy over the impending nuptials of Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip. Ellen falls head over heels for the dashing Lord John Brindale (Peter Lawford), and Tom becomes equally smitten with the elegant Anne Ashmond (Sarah Churchill). The film features one of Astaire's most legendary dance performances, dancing across the ceiling of a hotel room.
During World War I, dancer Jerry Jones stages an all-soldier show on Broadway, called Yip Yip Yaphank. Wounded in the war, he becomes a producer. During World War II, his son Johnny Jones, who was before his father's assistant, gets the order to stage a new all-soldier show, called This Is the Ar...
A biopic of songwriter and Broadway pioneer, Jerome Kern (Robert Walker). Unable to find immediate success in the US, Kern sought recognition abroad. He journeyed to England where his dreams of success became real and where he met his future wife, Eva Leale (Dorothy Patrick).
