IMDb plot summary: In order to cover up his philandering ways, a married Broadway producer sets one of his dancers up on a date with a chorus girl for whom he had bought a gift, but the two dancers fall in love for real.
Directed by Sidney Lanfied. Starring Fred Astaire, Rita Hayworth, Robert Benchley, and John Hubbard.
(Spoilers ahead.)
This definitely isn't one of Fred Astaire's stronger rom coms. There are a couple good dance numbers (his lovestruck number in the guardhouse is particularly great) but the plot is pretty darn loose and ultimately hinges on our hero tricking a woman into marrying him but it's all okay because he wasn't a philanderer like she thought! (Just someone who thinks it's totally cool to say, "Surprise, we're married now.") I did really enjoy the side character of the guy who speaks super fast and mumbles his words so nobody knows what he's saying, and my subtitles had a super fun time trying to keep up with him! Overall it fell a little flat for me but old timey big dance numbers are nice.
How it entered my Flickchart:
You'll Never Get Rich > If...
You'll Never Get Rich < Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book (1994)
You'll Never Get Rich < White Heat
You'll Never Get Rich < Batman Returns
You'll Never Get Rich < The Manchurian Candidate (2004)
You'll Never Get Rich > The Kids Are All Right
You'll Never Get Rich > A Foreign Affair
You'll Never Get Rich < A Bug's Life
You'll Never Get Rich < Focus
You'll Never Get Rich < Must Love Dogs
You'll Never Get Rich < The Age of the Medici
You'll Never Get Rich > Trumbo
Final spot: #1488 out of 3126.
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