You'll Never Get Rich
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Movie Reviews of You'll Never Get Rich
Movie Review: You'll Never Get Rich
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a wonderful movie. If Fred Astaire danced with his other partners first, there would be no arogant, self centered, egotistical etc. Ginger Rogers. I have found that the dancers after Ginger are much better in all respects. Fred and Rita are just terrific together. I also purchased their second movie, You'll Never Be Lovelier". What class!!!!Movie Review: excellent - 5 stars
Summary: 5 Stars
Anything with Fred is worthwhile to purchase on DVD so you can keep zooming back and forth watching all his dance moves over and over. excellent value too.
just wish they would put out The Sky is the Limit with Joan Leslie - one of my favourites that I just have a worn out video copy that is 20 years old
Movie Review: "You Were Never Lovlier"
Summary: 5 Stars
Rita Hayworth was never lovlier. The script is a wonderful throughback to the days when movies were movies.
Fred Astaire claimed Rita was his favorite dance partner saying that she countered his every movement.
Movie Review: You'll Never Get Rich
Summary: 5 Stars
What with Rita Hayworth as his partner and a Cole Porter score, this is one of Fred Astaire's best movies in my opinion. It's too late, I know, but I'm in love with Rita Hayworth.Movie Review: Astaire and a Dazzling Hayworth Amid Boogie-Woogie Beats and Pre-WWII Shenanigans
Summary: 4 Stars
Barely five minutes into the film and only thirty seconds long, a small jewel is not to be missed in this vintage 1941 musical, as it ranks among the best dance numbers to be seen from the golden age of Hollywood. It's where Fred Astaire casually asks Rita Hayworth to follow him on a complex tap routine set to Cole Porter's "Boogie Barcarole". That Astaire performs flawlessly is to be expected, but the stunning 23-year old Hayworth is startling in her precision and élan. Not only is she absurdly beautiful in her crisp rehearsal togs, but she matches Astaire step for step with unbridled confidence and with her long, gorgeous gams perfectly synchronized with his. The rest of the number, performed with an army of similarly dressed dancers, is not nearly as exhilarating especially since the fusion between boogie-woogie and classical feels forced.
The movie itself, directed by Sidney Lanfield and written by Michael Fessier and Ernest Pagano, is a silly mistaken identity affair that feels lifted from one of Astaire's earlier pairings with Ginger Rogers and then retrofitted into a military theme. Hardly a stretch, he plays Bob Curtis, a Broadway dancer and choreographer who works for philandering producer Martin Cortland, played by Algonquin wit Robert Benchley. Cortland has his eyes on chorus dancer Sheila Winthrop and attempts to give her a diamond bracelet until his wife Julia mistakes the gift for her. He pretends the bracelet is from Curtis, which of course, leads to larger complications, especially when Curtis gets drafted and his superior officer turns out to be Sheila's intended fiancé. Off the dance floor and in her first leading role, Hayworth, already in her 38th film, is charming as Sheila, although Frieda Inescort easily steals all her scenes as the deadpan Julia, a perfect match to the acerbic Benchley.
Lowbrow comic shenanigans are interspersed with the Robert Alton-choreographed musical numbers. The highlights are an impressive Astaire tap solo set to "Since I Kissed My Baby Goodbye" and two more duets with Hayworth - the alluring rumba, "So Near and Yet So Far", and the infectious "Wedding Cake Walk" where the pair get married amid a dress-alike chorus, do a mean Harlem shuffle and tap-dance atop a white cake shaped like a tank. In fact, opening two months before Pearl Harbor, the film portends the upcoming war with similarly patriotic ensemble numbers like "Shootin' the Works for Uncle Sam". The 2003 DVD includes trailers for this film as well as two classic Hayworth vehicles, the career-defining Gilda, and future husband Orson Welles' pulp classic, The Lady from Shanghai. The movie is very lightweight, but Astaire's artistry is always worthwhile in any setting, and it's easy to see why Hayworth became the fantasy figure of many an American soldier.