Claire Dodd

Slightly Honorable -- Slightly Honorable

Slightly Honorable -- A lawyer is framed for the murder of a young party girl and tries to clear his name.

Fun's in fashion when Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers (plus Irene Dunne and Randolph Scott) enter the ultrachic Parisian world of high fashion in Roberta. The third Astaire/Rogers film, a silky screen adaptation of the 1933 Broadway hit, has all that fans had some to expect from the pair's movies: a jaunty romantic plot, fabulous sets, memorable music and above all, incomparable dance magic to match the score. "The most pleasant moments in Roberts," Time reported, "arrive when Astaire and Rogers turn the story upside down and dance on it." Astaire may sing I Won't Dance. But his feet betray him.

There is something rotten in the house of Winslow. A wealthy but embittered matriarch makes a deathbed recovery only to be murdered by someone in the greedy clan gathered for the reading of her will. The family is frustrated to learn that nobody receives a penny until the very last of the old lady's multitude of beloved cats perish. Along with the family and servants, an eager real estate agent and a single-minded antique dealer have arrived to pounce on what seemed to be a sure-fire, moneymaking opportunity. But the entire group is trapped in the aged mansion by a raging storm. One by one, both cats and people turn up dead. And the only thing more mysterious than the revolving doors and passageways scattered throughout the grand estate, is the identity of the murderer.