Rita Hayworth Is Stayin' Alive

[Henry]

Years ago a couple of phono collector pals and I drove to Long Beach, and boarded the Queen Mary. When no one was looking we sneakily slipped past some "access forbidden" barriers, through some "do not enter" doors, and found ourselves in the grand ballroom. Our senior friend, an extremely mild-mannered sort of guy, walked out into the middle of the dance floor and with great enthusiasm loudly whispered "FRED ASTAIRE DANCED HERE!"

But did he really? I ask because I'm not sure but what it was a re-creation of the QM ballroom on a Hollywood sound stage. Which movie? We can fact-check on http://www.imdb.com.

In any event, your friend's sentiment was totally appropriate!

[PeterF]

I think the idea was that Fred had traveled on the QM and during one of his trips surely must have danced.