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...Were Never Lovelier (Columbia) does not quite live up to its title but presents fresh evidence that Fred Astaire is still a superb dancer and a deft light-comedian and that Rita Hayworth is. still the most ambrosial lady he has ever teamed with. But Astaire underplays his lively feet and Miss Hayworth overplays her lovely hand. Even so, Astaire's dancing has the staccato precision of a military command, and Rita Hayworth, merely walking down a staircase, is something to risk court-martial...
Like the comedy, the plot is a little overdone. Miss Hayworth is hustled into marriage because her Argentine father (Adolphe Menjou) insists that she wed before her younger sisters. Fred Astaire, a momentarily unemployed Yankee hoofer, gets mixed up in it and, against Father's wishes, walks off with both a job and Rita. These complications are set to smooth music by Jerome Kern, which is served up, with whipped cream, by Xavier Cugat. Hoofer Astaire sings two tunes aptly enough to raise one of Bing Crosby's sleepy eyebrows, conducts Miss Hayworth through a lush nocturnal duet...
...best part of the whole picture is the opening twenty minutes--bringing in Charles Boyer, Rita Hayworth (Oh Rita), and Thomas Mitchell, who plays one of the best drunken jealous husbands in years. Charles Boyer is a self-loved Broadway Romeo who makes bedroom eyes at Rita, who out bedrooms him until her husband interrupts with a rifle. Boyer puts on a show that makes the whole picture worth seeing, but Mitchell gets his wife back...
...cinema production, and it will probably be a success just because of that. It is difficult to evaluate as a whole, because it is so chopped up into little episodes, some great, and some very much third rate. But the bad points are more than compensated for by Rita Hayworth, who should make the evening worth while for any red-blooded Harvard...
...usual triangle with Charles Boyer (the lover), Rita Hayworth (the wife), Thomas Mitchell (the husband) and a homicidal ending...