It's Always Fair Weather is a 1955 American musical romantic comedy film directed by Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen.

The film was scripted by Betty Comden and Adolph Green, who also wrote the show's lyrics, with music by André Previn.

It stars Kelly, Dan Dailey, Cyd Charisse, Dolores Gray, and dancer/choreographer Michael Kidd in his first film acting role.

When Ted receives a Dear John letter from his girlfriend telling him she has married another man, his friends comfort him and join him hitting every other bar in town.

Barman Tim is dubious about their vows of eternal friendship—having heard similar claims made by many other discharged servicemen—and wagers them they will forget about each other.

The trio protest that they will be different and promise to reunite exactly ten years later at the same spot, tearing a dollar bill in three parts and writing the date of October 11, 1955, on each piece.

Sitting together in an expensive restaurant as Doug's guest, munching celery, they silently express their regrets in "I Shouldn't Have Come", sung to the tune of "The Blue Danube".

She joins Ted at Stillman's Gym, where Jackie demonstrates a deep knowledge of boxing while cavorting with beefy boxers to the tune of "Baby You Knock Me Out".

It was intended to reunite Gene Kelly with his On the Town co-stars Frank Sinatra and Jules Munshin; it was to be produced as a Broadway show.

[8] According to Kelly's biographer Clive Hirschhorn, Sinatra declined to return to wearing a sailor suit after he had recently won a Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for From Here to Eternity (1953).

"[11][12] Due to his previous experience during Brigadoon (1954), Kelly was reluctant to shoot in CinemaScope, which he did not find suitable for screen dancing.

[13] Regardless, one of Donen's ideas using the CinemaScope format was to use split screen into three parts to depict the separate careers of the main leads.

[11] Due to Dore Schary's attempts at austerity, It's Always Fair Weather was not as lavishly produced when compared to An American in Paris (1951) and Singin' in the Rain (1952).

"[12] Comden, Green, and Previn had written a song titled "Love is Nothing but a Racket" as a slow ballad duet between Kelly and Charisse.

[15] Another production number titled "Jack and the Space Giants" featured Kidd performing an elaborate ten-minute dance with a group of children.

[2] Hy Hollinger of Variety wrote the film "takes on advertising agencies and tv commercials, and what emerges is a delightful musical satire that should help empty living rooms and fill up theatres".

"[18] Edwin Schallert of the Los Angeles Times felt that while "the premise of the story and screenplay by Betty Comden and Adolph Green is an interesting one, the picture does not get off the ground quite as happily as the theme might promise.

[20] In her book 5001 Nights at the Movies, critic Pauline Kael called the film a "delayed hangover", and wrote that its "mixture of parody, cynicism and song and dance is perhaps a little sour".