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'''''The Band Wagon''''' (1953) is a [[Metro Goldwyn Mayer]] film based on the Broadway revue from 1931, which also starred [[Fred Astaire]]. Astaire plays Tony Hunter, a nearly washed-up hoofer who hopes to revitalize his career by doing a new Broadway musical. The going soon gets rough. The director, Jeffrey Cordova, has megalomaniacal ambitions to stage a show based on Goethe's ''[[Faust]]''; the choreographer, Paul Byrd, is a ballet snob; and Gabrielle Gerard, Paul's girlfriend, barely condescends to dance with Tony. After everything goes to hell--sohell—so to speak--Tonyspeak—Tony and Jeffrey manage to salvage the show by turning it into a series of spectacular, and apparently unconnected, production numbers. "That's Entertainment" ensues, along with romance between Tony and Gaby.

* [[Deal with the Devil]]: Figuratively speaking--Cordovaspeaking—Cordova is a comical version of Mephistopheles for most of the film, and the other characters uneasily go along with him to further their careers.