Tuesday, January 29, 2008

YOU'LL NEVER GET RICH -- Fred Astaire & Rita Hayworth, stars

©1941
studio: Sony Pictures
production company: Columbia Pictures Corporation
dir: Sidney Lanfield
cast: Fred Astaire, Rita Hayworth, Robert Benchley, John Hubbard, Osa Massen, Frieda Inescort, Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams, Donald MacBride
screenplay: Michael Fessier & Ernest Pagano

A choreographer gets stuck between his leacherous, married boss and a dancer (who's fallen for the choreorapher). In an attempt to avoid them all, the choreographer joins the army.

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This was just a heck of a lot of old-time, musical comedy fun. I did find the sexual innuendo much stronger than I expected for a '41 film. How blatant was the theatre impressario's attempts to bed the dancers ... and his wife seemed to know about them?!

Recommended for a relaxing evening of movie watching.

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