It's Always Fair Weather
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This was a group presentation I gave this year for my third year American Film class at Queen's University. Here we examine MGM's It's Always Fair Weather starring Gene Kelly, Dan Dailey, Cyd Charisse and Michael Kidd. Our presentation focused on the Arthur Freed unit, the relationship between Gene Kelly and Stephen Donen, the emergence of TV, masculinity and kitsch culture.
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It's Always Fair Weather
- 1. It’s Always Fair Weather By Lisa Aalders, Ben Bourgon, Caroline Klimek and Jamie Vaughan Film301 November 2, 2011
- 2. It’s Always Fair Weather (1955) Topics: • 1950s America • The MGM Musical Machine • Emergence of Television • Stylistic Conventions • Consumption and Advertising • Crisis of Masculinity and the Working Woman
- 4. Can you think of any other instances in the film where there is a clear social class divide or where there is a clear opinion given regarding communism or capitalism?
- 5. MGM Musicals
- 6. Arthur Freed Freed with Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen.
- 7. Stanley and Donen and It’s Always Fair Weather (1955)
- 8. Gene Kelly
- 9. 1951 An American in Paris 1952 Singin’ in the Rain 1953 The Wild One The Band Wagon 1954 On the Waterfront 1955 It’s Always Fair Weather Guys and Dolls East of Eden Rebel without a Cause
- 10. According to Michael Wood in “Darkness in the Dance” in America in the Movies, “Fred Astaire is a style, but Gene Kelly is a state of mind, almost an ideology… it is the American mood which found its metaphor in Kelly’s brash confidence”. How does Gene Kelly’s character in Its Always Fair Weather represent postwar America?
- 12. Rejection of the Television Aesthetic
- 13. Through its style and presentation, how does It’s Always Fair Weather differentiate the medium of film from television? Is it successful in this effort?
- 15. What is the effect of the use of montage to represent the passage of time and (what was then) recent history? Does it allow the depicted plights of these men an appropriate emotional weight?
- 18. Why do you think the filmmakers chose to almost attack the world of television advertising in this film?
- 19. Crisis of Masculinity and the Working Woman
- 20. The Time For Parting Though the time has come for parting , And the future lies unknown, Although the years may come between us, We will never feel alone For friends we are now and friends we’ll stay Until we meet again one wonderful day For though the time has come for parting, We’ll be friends until we die
- 21. War
- 22. Jackie Leighton
- 24. What did you think of Tim the bartender? How does he represent postwar America?
- 25. What did you think about the ending? Was it a happy, bittersweet or just problematic?
- 26. Which do you prefer Singin’ in the Rain or It’s Always Fair Weather?
- 27. Why is Singin’ in the Rain on #1 on AFI’s best musicals when It’s Always Fair Weather isn’t even on the list?
- 28. How does this film anticipate contemporary TV culture?
- 29. Would this film’s criticism of television apply to contemporary TV programming? Is television necessarily insincere because of its reliance on advertising?