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...Were Never Lovelier (Rita Hayworth, Fred Astaire, Adolphe Menjou; TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jan. 4, 1943 | 1/4/1943 | See Source »

...Were Never Lovelier (Rita Hayworth, Fred Astaire, Adolphe Menjou; TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, Dec. 28, 1942 | 12/28/1942 | See Source »

...Were Never Lovelier (Rita Hayworth, Fred Astaire, Adolphe Menjou. TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, Dec. 21, 1942 | 12/21/1942 | See Source »

...Were Never Lovelier (Rita Hayworth, Fred Astaire, Adolphe Menjou; TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, Nov. 23, 1942 | 11/23/1942 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Nov. 16, 1942 | 11/16/1942 | See Source »

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