Word: terpsichoreans
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With Cole Porter's songs, Fred Astaire's dancing and Rita Hayworth's sundry contributions, "You'll Never Get Rich" is an A-1 Hollywood musical. In several strikingly good dance numbers the new Astaire-Hayworth dance duo tops his last few combinations and equals the old Astaire-Rogers terpsichorean team. Astaire still can't sing and can't act, but the picture wisely requires a modicum of the former and a minimum of the latter. A simple story of how drafted stage star Astaire wins colonel's lady Hayworth, the plot is covered in a few mediocre but short...
...series of publicity releases for a group which certainly doesn't need any more attention called to it. Their music has no other function than to sell itself, and beyond its passability on the dance floor there is nothing to it. The blaring brass, thumping drums, and pseudo-terpsichorean antics commonly associated with swing are only a rapidly fading part of the whole popular music field...
...something about their partnership in "Roberta," "Top Hat," and others of the series that will nevermore be equalled, Paulette exudes the qualities men look for in their movie dream girls, and can even act, but she ain't got enough rhythm for Astaire. Faced with this lack of terpsichorean ability in his partner, Fred must spend most of "Second Chorus" blowing a trumpet on which he obviously doesn't know the difference between the valves and the mouthpiece. As perennial collegians with a bent for music, he and Burgess Meredith tootle their way through a spottily amusing show. Artie Shaw...
...well-worn I Didn't Know What Time It Was and the new You're Nearer, also gets the affections of Richard Carlson, whose crew haircut makes him the first genuine-looking Princeton undergraduate in cinema history. Ann Miller, Hal LeRoy and a Cuban, Desi Arnaz, a terpsichorean Rudolph Valentino who was in the stage show, make you wish there were more time for dancing; Eddie Bracken that there were more for comedy...
...which is only remotely related to heat. This isn't to say that we don't all think Annie is a great girl, and that we don't love her ever so much, but it would be pretty boring to sit through something depending entirely upon her thespian and terpsichorean abilities...