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'''''The Band Wagon'''''
Directed by Vincente Minnelli, choreographed by Michael Kidd, and written by Betty Comden and Adolph Green.
Recently{{when}} [[Recursive Adaptation|adapted]] as a stage musical, although the result was not a critical success. More famously, the "Girl Hunt" inspired Michael Jackson's "Smooth Criminal" video.
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* [[Affectionate Parody]]: The "Girl Hunt" ballet, which sends up ''noir'' and hardboiled mysteries.
* [[Author Avatar]]: The Martons are based on Comden and Green.
* [[The Cameo]]: Ava Gardner.
* [[The Chessmaster]]: Cordova, most notably when he maneuvers Paul Byrd into letting Gaby do the musical.
* [[Deal
* [[Faust]]: The musical-within-the-musical is based on ''Faust
* [[Femme Fatale]]: Parodied in "The Girl Hunt
* [[Hopeless Auditionees]]: We see one during the chorus audition.
* [[In Name Only]]: About the only things the film has in common with the original revue are Fred Astaire and a handful of songs.
* [[May-December Romance]]: Tony and Gaby
* [[Ms. Fanservice]]: Gaby.
* [[The Musical Musical]]
* [[No Celebrities Were Harmed]]: The film is loaded with parodies of contemporary show business types, including Comden and Green (sending themselves up as the Martons), Jose Ferrer (Jeffrey Cordova), George Balanchine (Paul Byrd), and Fred Astaire himself (Tony Hunter).
* [[Prima Donna Director]]: Cordova, until the musical fails. And Byrd, to a lesser extent.
* [[Shoe Shine, Mister?]]: Fred Astaire sings and dances "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4UUkui545I#t=1m20s Shine on your Shoes]" with the shoe shiner.
* [[Slap Slap Kiss]]: Tony and Gaby.
* [[Stylistic Suck]]: The nightmarishly bad ''Faust'' adaptation.
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{{AFI's Greatest Movie Musicals}}
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[[Category:Roger Ebert Great Movies List]]
[[Category:National Film Registry]]
[[Category:Films of the 1950s]]
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