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Excellent, Without a doubt!!

Very interesting film. Was caught on the premise when seeing the trailer but unsure as to what the outcome would be for the showing. As it turns out, it was a very good film.

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

It could be one of many romantic films from the period. the lead obstacle are Rita Hayworth, Fred Astaire and, especially,Adolphe Menjou. the last, for me, is the key of a lovely sentimental comedy, his performance as the father looking for the perfect boy for the daughter , the rule of mariage in Latino-American societies and the move from the bitter rich man to the sensitive friend of a not comfortable American dancer are more than good points. sure, the moments Hayworth- Astaire are great. but predictable. the small detail remains, off course, for me, the adorable work of AdolpheMenjou.

Fred Astaire and Rita Hayworth only wade two films together. While "You'll Never Get Rich" was a disappointment, here in "You Were Never Lovelier", you can see their full potential as a team. Sure, Hayworth was much younger than Astaire, but they had terrific chemistry and danced together BETTER than Astaire and Rogers. This is because, unlike Rogers, Rita was at heart a dancer and was a professional dancer long before she came to Hollywood. As a result, her moves have impeccable grace and their dance scenes together are just stunning.The film is set in Argentina--which isn't much of a surprise, as during WWII many films were set there. Adolph Menjou plays Mr. Acuña--a very wealthy and very controlling man. After his oldest daughter weds, he's decided his next daughter (Rita) MUST marry before her sisters--and they have fiancés and are raring to go. But Rita is a cold fish and has no apparent interest in guys. So, in a VERY manipulative (and creepy) move, he decides to concoct a secret admirer who will send her love letters. But, he writes them himself (SUPER creepy) and runs into a problem....who will play this Romeo? By a strange coincidence, Rita THINKS that her admirer is Fred--but her father hates him! So, the father and Fred are forced to work together. But what's to happen next? See this very cute film and you'll see for yourself.While the story turned out to be quite good, the best thing about the movie is the dancing. Menjou also was excellent--very funny and he added great color to this film. As for the singing, it's generally good (and Rita lip sync's quite well), but the musical numbers sung by Xavier Cugat's band were pretty distracting. It's because of this the film just barely manages to miss scoring a 9--but even then, it's an absolute must for Astaire fans and fans of classic Hollywood song and dance films. Well worth seeing and full of charm and class.

As a kid growing up in the 1950s I had heard of Rita Hayworth but knew nothing about her or her acting. So I have been watching select DVDs of her movies. This one, with Fred Astaire, was made 4 years before her famous role as "Gilda". Astaire was already is his 40s, while Hayworth was just past 20. Still, they made a nice pair on screen.Hayworth was a trained dancer, and she does fine with Astaire, but when you watch the dance sequences in 1/8 speed slow motion is when you realize how much better Astaire was. He was one of a kind, and he made it look so easy.In this movie Fred Astaire is Robert 'Bob' Davis, nightclub singer and dancer who makes his way down to Argentina. His weakness is horse racing, and he finds himself broke when he happens on his old bandsman fiend, Xavier Cugat as himself, with his band, playing at a club called Acuna. So he sets out to get work there. But Adolphe Menjou as the difficult, hard-headed Eduardo Acuña, wealthy owner of the club, won't even give Bob the time of day, but Bob is persistent. But there is a much bigger issue, Mr Acuna's daughters. The two youngest ones have men and are ready to get married, but their family tradition is to have the daughters marry in order from eldest to youngest. The problem is with Maria, who just seems to cold to fall for a man.Rita Hayworth is that daughter, Maria Acuña. When dad hatches a plan which involves a fictitious anonymous admirer sending Orchids and notes every day, Bob accidentally gets in the picture as a delivery boy and Maria thinks he is the admirer. Dad does not approve of Bob, but his younger daughters are putting pressure on the situation. What is a dad to do? So the rest of the movie is to see who wins, will dad dispatch Bob back to New York, or will he and Maria get together in the end? Easy guess.I really enjoyed this movie. The story is all fluff, for sure, but it was great fun seeing the three lead actors. The production numbers are all fun, with songs by Jerome Kern. Now that I have seen several of her early movies it is easy to see why she became such a star.

This movie is appropriately titled, as it's hard to imagine a woman more breathtakingly beautiful than Rita Hayworth in the early 1940's. The fact that she was an accomplished dancer - reportedly Fred Astaire's favorite partner - only adds to her ethereal, otherworldly appeal. Their second and sadly last pairing in this lightweight 1942 confection hardly does justice to either star, but it's a pleasant enough romantic comedy highlighted by just two numbers where they dance together. Those moments are worth slogging through the silly plot co-penned by Michael Fessier, Ernest Pagano, and Delmer Daves.Directed by studio journeyman William A. Seiter, the film has American hoofer Bob Davis in Buenos Aires losing his savings at the racetrack. Looking for work, he seeks a chance to audition for hotel owner Eduardo Acuna. Enlisting the help of bandleader Xavier Cugat (Charo's future husband) and his orchestra, he fails to impress Acuna. However, through various plot machinations including mistaken identity and parental scheming, Bob meets and becomes smitten with Acuna's headstrong daughter Maria, who has decided she will never marry. This upsets her two giggly younger sisters who cannot marry their respective sweethearts until Maria marries. The resolution to this dilemma is predictable, but it is all wrapped in a soundtrack that combines Latin rhythms and sonorous songs by Jerome Kern. One of the composer's best, the über-romantic "I'm Old-Fashioned", provides the film's unequivocal high point as Hayworth lip syncs the classic chestnut to Nan Wynn's dusky alto and moves into a graceful pas de deux with Astaire peppered with a Latin-flavored interlude.On the other end of the spectrum is the be-bop delight, "Shorty George" where a bobby-socked Hayworth tap dances with impressive abandon as she matches Astaire step for step. Astaire's artistry goes without saying, although Bob is pretty much like every hapless character he played in all those movies with Ginger Rogers. At 24, Hayworth is such a serene object of desire as Maria that it's no wonder Astaire's character is rendered speechless and asks her to turn around to avoid further embarrassment. Adolphe Menjou is his usual pompous blowhard as Acuna though hardly believable as an Argentinean, while Cugat seems far more at ease with a baton than with a script. Compared with their 1941 film, "You'll Never Get Rich", this movie has a more fanciful tone without the wartime context, but the highlights are less frequent. This was Hayworth's favorite film, and apparently a fifteen-year-old Fidel Castro is among the extras. The 2004 DVD offers no additional features.