YOU'LL NEVER GET RICH

US, 1941, 88 minutes, Black and white.
Fred Astaire, Rita Hayworth, John Hubbard, Robert Benchley, Osa Massen, Freda Inescort, Guinn Williams.
Directed by Sidney Lanfield.

You'll Never Get Rich is the first-time teaming of Fred Astaire and Rita Hayworth. It was so popular that there was a follow-up, You Were Never Lovelier.

The plot is the slightest. Astaire plays an arrogant song-and-dance man who is called up during the war. Rita Hayworth plays an ambitious dancer. There is some old-fashioned comedy with Robert Benchley playing a two-timing impresario who is unmasked.

1. Popular teaming of Fred Astaire and Rita Hayworth? The popularity of the Hollywood musical? During World War Two?

2. Black and white photography, studio sets, atmosphere of New York, upstate?

3. The musical score, the Cole Porter songs, choreography? Astaire and Hayworth dancing together?

4. The routine plot, the expected characters, interactions, deceptions, farce?

5. Show business, Robert as a dancer, Sonia as the star promoted by Martin? Sheila and her mistakes, her devices to get attention?

6. Fred Astaire as Robert, his lies for Martin, falling in love, clashes with Sheila, the army, the show?

7. Martin and Julia, the impresario, the lies, the gifts to the stars, being exposed, Sheila, the farce with the bracelet and the inscriptions? Sonia?

8. Sheila and her fiance, the jokes, her aunt and support?

9. The military sequences, the brig, getting out, getting back? The show?

10. The two comedians?

11. A slight and popular entertainment of the '40s?