[2] Broadway producers Al Marsh, Tony Naylor, and Jerry Ralby are desperately searching for investors to finance their new show.

Max understands Tony's feelings, and sends him back to Paris to help the struggling fashion show finale.

The film was originally announced as a vehicle for Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatra, who had teamed together several times previously.

They would have co-starred with Judy Garland and Betty Garrett[3][4] Aside from keeping the musical score and retaining the idea of a dress shop being inherited by someone, it bears almost no resemblance to the show or 1935 film.

[1] The New York Times reviewer wrote: "The producers ... have used the full and wonderful complement of tunes from the sturdy score [of Roberta].

The bittersweet lilt of "Yesterdays", as sung by Miss Grayson, has not lost its haunting quality and the now-classic "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" still has notes and lyrics of poetic beauty...

And Ann Miller is permitted to exhibit both her beautiful legs and her staccato tapping in a snappy run through of "I'll be Hard to Handle.

Howard Keel and Kathryn Grayson, who have no need to prove their eminence as singers, again are in fine voice and make a handsome couple whose misunderstandings are inconsequential.