You Were Never Lovelier (1942) on Netflix
Passed19421h 37mComedyMusicalRomance
Penniless in Buenos Aires, American dancer Bob Davis seeks work from Eduardo Acuña, whose daughter Maria will not marry. Orchids and anonymous love notes arrive for Maria.
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Plot summary
Bob Davis, an American dancer who bets on horses, loses his money in Buenos Aires and looks for work at the nightclub of Eduardo Acuña, who will not see him. A bandleader friend invites Bob to perform at the wedding of Julia, the eldest Acuña daughter. Acuña holds that his daughters must marry from oldest to youngest; Maria, the next in line, refuses, and her younger sisters Cecy and Lita wait. Bob is drawn to Maria and is brushed off. Acuña hopes to put Maria in the mood for romance and sends her orchids and notes from a secret admirer. Mistaking Bob for a bellboy, Acuña has him deliver the latest note and flower; Maria sees him drop it off and takes him for her admirer, and asks her father to bring him to dinner.
Cast
- Larry Arnoldas Wedding Guest (uncredited)
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- George Bunnyas Flower Man (uncredited)
- George Fordas Wedding Guest (uncredited)
- Frank McClureas Wedding Guest (uncredited)
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about You Were Never Lovelier (1942)
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- Fred Astaire worked out all the dance numbers with Rita Hayworth while rehearsing in a room above a funeral parlour, according to Astaire's biography.
- Although Rita Hayworth had a fine singing voice, Columbia's Harry Cohn insisted that her singing be dubbed throughout the film by Nan Wynn.
- Composer Jerome Kern was unhappy when Xavier Cugat and his orchestra were chosen, but was so pleased with the band once production ended that he gave Cugat a silver baton.
- Fred Astaire's first solo routine on a Latin dance theme inspired Jerome Robbins' solo Latin dance in Robbins' first ballet, Fancy Free, created in 1944.
- According to Fred Astaire, the original dance number that followed the initial song was cut after a preview because the studio felt it held up the story.
