Another Musical from the mind of Bugsy Berkeley using a hot leading lady, Ginger Rogers, who is once again tamed by a man, Fred Astaire, for marriage. We're seeing another example of a woman with raw sexuality, although more confined this time within the bounds of the censors of the day. So as a result, inuendo took over as actors were kept from truly representing sexual encounters on screen to suggest sexuality. In order to express those sexual desires as much as possible the filmmakers and choreographer used dance to suggest the sexuality between these two actors to get around actually discussing the issues directly.
The most notable Inuendo in the fiml is the musical number, "Dancing Cheek to Cheek."
This film was quite entertaining actually for a musical. The dance numbers and music were very captivating and Fred Astaire with his tap dancing is extremely entertaining while Ginger Rogers is a damn good actress and plays her part aside from the musicality and sexuality of her character very well. This is a film that is very much part of the Star system and obviously promotes its star power to get audiences.
In this film you can clearly see the Hollywood system creating artificialities that allow audiences to get out sexual frustration in a safe way without actually talking about their problems and without having the censors crack down on them. As a result, we're starting to see this weird schizophrenia occurring whereby American filmgoers have to see between a restrained, socially and politically acceptable movie that doesn't comment on sexuality and a highly sexually charged secondary movie that is very explicit in innuendo and suggestion. There's this weird psychological wink wink game going on between the filmmakers, the audience, and the censors.