August 27: Second Chorus (1940) starring Fred Astaire and Artie Shaw, music by Artie Shaw, produced by Boris Morros from a story by Ben Hecht, with art direction from Boris Leven
Two talented trumpeters (Fred Astaire and Burgess Meredith) are on the brink of graduating when they meet Ellen, a beautiful young student (Paulette Goddard). They ask her to manage their band, but their collaboration ends when the boys leave college. Ellen, meanwhile, has started to manage another successful band, and so tries to use her new contacts to help the boys break into showbiz.