Marjorie Reynolds and Fred Astaire in the New Year’s Eve scene in Irving Berlin’s Holiday Inn (1942) with choreography by Danny Dare.
“Marjorie Reynolds and I did a comedy jitterbug dance in a New Year’s Eve night-club sequence which emphasized my inebriated condition. I had to look plenty drug in that bit and figured there was only one good way to do it. Yes, you’re right. I took two stiff hookers of bourbon before the first take and one before each succeeding take. I had to fall down on my face and be carried out for the finish. It was hot on that stage, too! All in all we did it seven times. The last one was the best.”
— Fred Astaire in Steps in Time
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