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 stretches between the excellent musical numbers.
"Our Wife," an eternal triangle comedy, has Melvyn Douglas as the goal of both Ruth Hussey and Ellen Drew. Not quite reaching the heights of "Third Finger Left Hand," the show offers a clever plot and scintillating dialogue. It makes an unusually good double bill in these days of sorry second features.
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