You'll Never Get Rich
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.
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 provided a welcome boost to Astaire, who felt his career had flagged since he had broken with Ginger Rogers.
One of the film's songs," Since I Kissed My Baby Goodbye," was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Song.
Requiescant
Requiescant, also known as Kill and Pray, is a 1967 Spaghetti Western film directed by Carlo Lizzani.
Rookies on Parade
Rookies on Parade is a 1941 Republic Pictures musical – comedy film that was the studios entry into the pre-World War II Army comedy genre.
The Army technical advisor was Captain Jack Voglin who performed the same duty on the 1941 films" You're in the Army NowYou'll Never Get Rich", and" Buck Privates".
The film was directed by Joseph Santley.
Bob Crosby, Ruth Terry, Eddie Foy Jr., and Marie Wilson star.
Sidney Lanfield
Sidney Lanfield( April 20, 1898 – June 20, 1972) was an American film director known for directing romances and light comedy films and later television programs.
The one- time jazz musician and vaudevillian star started his first directing job for the Fox Film Corporation in 1930; he went on to direct a number of films for 20th Century Fox.
In 1941, he directed the Fred Astaire film" You'll Never Get Rich" for Columbia Pictures, then moved to Paramount Pictures.
There Lanfield worked on a number of film comedies.
He is probably best remembered for directing actor Bob Hope in a number of films including" My Favorite Blonde"( 1942)," Let's Face It"( 1943)," Where There's Life"( 1947), and" The Lemon Drop Kid"( 1951).
Lanfield's most profitable film, however, was the first teaming of Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce as Holmes and Watson in 1939's" The Hound of the Baskervilles".
In the early 1950s the reputedly strict taskmaster- director moved to television where his vaudeville and comic background in films were put to use in television comedies including" Where's Raymond?
McHale's Navy" and" The Addams Family".
Lanfield was married to film actress Shirley Mason from 1927 until his death in 1972.
He is interred in the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles.
Lanfield was also known as Sidney Landfield.
Carlo Lizzani
Carlo Lizzani( 3 April 1922 – 5 October 2013) was an Italian film director, screenwriter and critic.
Harvey Lembeck
Harvey Lembeck( April 15, 1923 – January 5, 1982) was an American comedic actor best remembered for his role as Cpl. Rocco Barbella on" The Phil Silvers Show"( a.k.a." Sgt. Bilko", a.k.a." You'll Never Get Rich") in the late 1950s, and as the stumbling, overconfident quasi-outlaw biker Eric Von Zipper in beach party films during the 1960s.
He also turned in noteworthy performances in both the stage and screen versions of" Stalag 17".
He was the father of actor and director Michael Lembeck and actress Helaine Lembeck.
You'll Never See Me Again
You'll Never See Me Again is a 1973 American TV film directed by Jeannot Szwarc.
It was based on a story by Cornell Woolrich.
Philip Tannura
Philip Tannura( March 28, 1897 – December 7, 1973) was an American cinematographer who worked on over a hundred films during his career.
Tannura also directed and acted in several short films and worked on a number of Three Stooges shorts as cinematographer.
Tannura spent much of his career making mid to low- budget films for a variety of different Hollywood studios.
In the early 1930s he went to London to work in the booming British film industry.
He was able to work on more expensive, quality productions during these years including several films produced by the Hungarian- born tycoon Max Schach.
Following the outbreak of the Second World War, he returned to America.
In 1941, he was cinematographer for the Rita Hayworth and Fred Astaire musical" You'll Never Get Rich".
Generally much of his later work, often at Columbia Pictures, was on film series such as the" Lone Wolf" and" The Whistler".
From the early 1950s to the end of his career, he worked in television.
Cliff Nazarro
Cliff Nazarro (January 31, 1904 – February 18, 1961) was a popular double-talk comedian of the 1930s and 1940s who appeared in movies such as "You'll Never Get Rich" (1941) as Swivel Tongue with Fred Astaire and Rita Hayworth, In Old Colorado (1941) as Nosey Haskins with William Boyd, and "Hillbilly Blitzkrieg" (1942) as Barney Google.
A comment in a 1942 newspaper article summed up Nazarro's varied talents: "He played all sorts of roles in stock companies, was a versatile actor in musical comedy and vaudeville, is one of the top masters-of-ceremony in show business, and was a serious vocalist on the radio."
Nazarro was the voice of Warner Brothers cartoon character "Egghead."
He made a few commercial recordings, including a 1932 date as vocalist with swing band Roane's Pennsylvanians and a 1942 comic recitation, "News of the World."
You Were Never Lovelier
You Were Never Lovelier is a 1942 American musical romantic comedy film directed by William A. Seiter and starring Fred Astaire and Rita Hayworth.
It also features Adolphe Menjou and Xavier Cugat.
The music was composed by Jerome Kern and the lyrics by Johnny Mercer.
It was released by Columbia Pictures.
The film, a Hollywood remake of the classic Argentine romantic comedy" Los martes, orquídeas On Tuesdays: Orchids"; 1941), is set in Buenos Aires.
It was the second of two movies starring the duo of Astaire and Hayworth, following the box- office success of the 1941 release" You'll Never Get Rich".

Question: Which film whose director is younger, Requiescant or You'Ll Never Get Rich?
Answer: Requiescant