You’ll Never Get Rich by Columbia Pictures – 1941 a Hollywood musical comedy film with a wartime theme starring Fred Astaire, Rita Hayworth among others.
Music and lyrics by Cole Porter, directed by Sidney Lanfield.
This film was Hayworth’s first starring role in big budget films from Columbia Pictures her home studio. While in production Life Magazine put Hayworth on its cover, and featured her inside in a photo kneeling on a bed in a nightgown, That photo soon became one of the most widely distributed pin-ups of all time.
The film was very successful at the box office, it turned Hayworth into a major star, and gave a needed boost to Astaire who at that time had felt his career had stalled since breaking with Ginger Rogers.
One of the film’s songs, Since I Kissed My Baby Goodbye, was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Song. Haunting and melancholy Porter standard introduced by The Four Tones seen in the clip with lead singer Lucius Dusty Brooks, Leon Buck, Rudolph Hunter, and John Porter, followed by an Astaire solo… Enjoy