Movie #1563 ........................."Meet Me in Las Vegas"

Movie #1563 "Meet Me in Las Vegas" was a TCM offering the other day while I was cleaning the house , and I had it on in the background ---- I had never seen it so I was anxious to see Cyd Charisse with someone other than Gene Kelly or Fred Astaire.  However, the two (Cyd and Dan Dailey)  didn't do a number together until more than halfway through the film --- it was a cute number (the girl with the yellow shoes) but I'm not sure it was well worth the wait.  The movie is pretty basic fare --- the life of a ballerina in conflict with a life as a rancher's wife........Cyd is the lead ballerina for a broadway show, and this gambler/rancher big mouth decides that when he holds Cyd's hand and bets, he always wins ---- until he falls in love with her..........the film is full of other people performing, like Sammy Davis Jr, and  lena horne , and there's a strange number with Dan Dailey &  a little japanese girl that is not a  part of the main plot so it  seemed stuck in there --- that makes the film a bit disjointed.  But it's fun to see Cyd dance and dance and dance, which there is a lot of here, esp. a cute number where she tries to prove that a ballerina can do any kind of dancing, even a striptease.  I'd give it 3.5 stars out of 5.

Meet Me in Las Vegas (1956)

Not Rated | 1h 52min | Comedy, Romance, Musical | 9 March 1956 (USA)

In 1950s Las Vegas, a gambling rancher and a ballerina discover that some people have luck at cards while others have luck at love.

Director:

 Roy Rowland

Writers:

 Isobel Lennart (screen story), Isobel Lennart(screenplay) 

Stars:

 Dan Dailey, Cyd Charisse, Agnes Moorehead