It's Always Fair Weather

It's Always Fair Weather is a 1955 MGM musical film scripted by Betty Comden and Adolph Green, who also wrote the show's lyrics, scored by André Previn and starring Gene Kelly, Dan Dailey, Cyd Charisse, Michael Kidd, and Dolores Gray. Directed by Kelly and Stanley Donen, the film is about three ex-G.I.'s who have served in World War II together and become best friends. Upon returning home at the end of the war, they spend their last night togethe... more

It's Always Fair Weather is a 1955 MGM musical film scripted by Betty Comden and Adolph Green, who also wrote the show's lyrics, scored by André Previn and starring Gene Kelly, Dan Dailey, Cyd Charisse, Michael Kidd, and Dolores Gray. Directed by Kelly and Stanley Donen, the film is about three ex-G.I.'s who have served in World War II together and become best friends. Upon returning home at the end of the war, they spend their last night together drinking in a favourite New York bar and exchanging their hopes and plans for the future. Before going their separate ways, they promise to reunite exactly ten years later at the same spot. However, when the three men eventually meet up again, they soon realize that they have steadily grown apart in the intervening years and are now very different people. In addition, each is forced to face the fact that, to some extent, his present life falls short of how he'd imagined it would turn out when a younger man. Betty Comden and Adolph Green... less