Boogie Barcarolle - Fred Astaire & Rita Hayworth You’ll Never Get Rich ’41 HD

You’ll Never Get Rich (Columbia Pictures) is a 1941 Hollywood musical comedy film with a wartime theme directed by Sidney Lanfield and starring Fred Astaire, Rita Hayworth, Robert Benchley, Cliff Nazarro, with music and lyrics by Cole Porter.[1] The title stems from an old Army song which includes lyrics “You’ll never get rich / by digging a ditch / you’re in the Army now!“ This was Hayworth’s first starring role in a big budgeted film from her home studio Columbia Pictures. While the film was in production, Life magazine put her on its cover, and featured inside a photo of Hayworth kneeling on a bed in a nightgown, which soon became one of the most widely distributed pin-ups of all time. Hayworth cooperated enthusiastically with Astaire’s intense rehearsal habits, and was later to remark: “I guess the only jewels in my life are the pictures I made with Fred Astaire“. The picture was very successful at the box office, turning Hayworth into a major star, and p
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