9/5/2023 0 Comments Astaire hayworth movies![]() Robert runs from the scene and back to Martin’s office, where he learns he is about to be drafted. The man she had been seeing, Army Captain Tom Barton, reads the paper and sets Robert up, leading him to believe he is actually Sheila’s brother and plans to shoot Robert. She becomes suspicious of Robert’s intentions, and more so when she reads a newspaper report the next day about her alleged engagement to Robert. ![]() What Robert doesn’t know is Sheila knew about the bracelet and Martin’s plan to give it to her, and her kiss is just an act. Martin not only tells the newsman their names, he states they are practically engaged. Robert gives the gift to Sheila, who embraces him and tells him she is “deliriously happy.” When the two walk away, a newspaper photographer, who had taken a picture of them on the dance floor, asks Martin and Julia for their names and details about the couple. Martin attempts to placate her by slipping the bracelet to Robert and telling the two women his same story about purchasing it for Robert. Well, celebrating may not be quite the right word, as Julia remains suspicious. That evening, Robert and Sheila are out for dinner when they run into the Cortlands, who are celebrating their fifteenth wedding anniversary. He then tells Julia he purchased the bracelet for Robert to give to Sheila. The gifts get mixed up and Julia threatens Martin with divorce, who attempts fast talking his way out of the situation by giving her the gift he originally intended. Martin buys Julia an expensive Chinese backscratcher at the same time he purchases a diamond bracelet for Sheila, having the bracelet engraved for the dancer. Unfortunately, the theater owner, Martin Cortland (Robert Benchley), is also entranced by the beautiful Sheila, much to the chagrin of his wife, Julia (Frieda Inescort). B&W, 88 minutes.īroadway dancer Sheila Winthrop (Rita Hayworth) finds herself attracted to theater manager Robert Curtis (Fred Astaire), who shares her feelings. Starring Fred Astaire, Rita Hayworth, Robert Benchley. Most people don’t.You’ll Never Get Rich, 1941, Columbia Pictures. Whatever it is that makes audiences want to watch films that are seventy-five years old, Rita Hayworth doesn’t have it. She was as good a dancer as Ginger Rogers and made two well-danced but mostly forgotten films with Fred Astaire.īut the best stars of the golden age have what the French call je ne sais quoi, an indefinable charisma that you can’t look away from, no matter how bad the film. Part of the problem is that Hayworth’s true talent was dancing, and she doesn’t get to do much of that here. Rita Hayworth’s femme fatale lacks the chilling calculation of Stanwyck in Double Indemnity or the confident sex appeal of Lauren Bacall’s Slim Browning in To Have and Have Not. The twist that Gilda is not a femme fatale but has been faithful to both her husbands is obvious to the audience and only makes Johnny look like a fool for suspecing her of serial infidelity. ![]() Johnny Farrell and Gilda sparring mostly falls flat, and it’s hard to understand why they love and hate one another so deeply. Yet outside those two scenes, Gilda drags. She drives Farrell mad by playing the part of a femme fatale, though in truth she only has eyes for him. Rita Hayworth’s Gilda is seductive and mysterious, equalling loving and hating her one-time lover and eventual husband Johnny Farrell. This one glove striptease-the director didn’t dare risk having Hayworth remove both gloves-shocked and titillated audiences of 1946 as much as anything on the screen today. During the song, she yet again “does that shit with her hair” before slowly rolling down one glove and discarding it. In the second, Gilda dons a black strapless gown and long black gloves and sings “ Put the Blame on Mame” to an appreciative crowd. ![]() ![]() The first is her opening scene in the film as showcased in Shawshank. Gilda is a film mostly remembered for two scenes, both showcasing Hayworth’s innate sex appeal. ![]()
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