Follow The Fleet 1936 Written by Allan Scott and Dwight Taylor, additional dialogue by Lew Lipton, directed by Mark Sandrich.
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers were a song and dance team who fell out when she turned down his marriage proposal. He went into the Navy and when they meet again she's singing in a 10 cent a dance night club. He gets her fired from that, reneges on a promise to get her a better job, then screws up her chance in an audition she set up. Randolph Scott is Fred's ship mate and he's a woman in every port sort of guy.
There's more story about Ginger and her sister, played by Harriet Hillard. Harriett was later to Ozzie's wife in The Adventures Of Ozzie and Harriet. Here she wants to refurbish her late father's ship. She needs some cash or they lose the ship. Fred and Ginger puts on a show and he goes AWOL to be there. Eventually it all works out for the most part.
Pretty contrived and kind of annoying to me. I didn't care that much about the characters. The jokes aren't very funny and I wasn't that interested in most of the musical numbers. Ages ago I found the DVD cheap and picked it up. I'll probably keep it though I don't have much reason to.
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