This film, part of the Rita Hayworth season at BFI Southbank, also screens at the cinema on June 16th. More details here.
Here is the BFI introduction: Loyalty is tested as top-form Hayworth swaps Gene Kelly’s Brooklyn club
for Broadway fame via Vanity magazine. Hayworth positively gleams,
doubles as her character Rusty’s grandmother and dances like a dream in
the sockeroo title number. With Phil Silvers making it an ebullient
song’n’dance trio, astringent Eve Arden, Jerome Kern-Ira Gershwin songs
and more millinery than you can shake a stick at, it’s the finest
musical Hayworth made.
Chicago Reader review:
A lush 1944 musical vehicle built for Rita Hayworth at the height of her
popularity by Columbia's specialist in glitz, Charles Vidor (who went
on to create the definitive Hayworth in Gilda). Gene Kelly,
languishing as a contract player at MGM, made his first big impression
on this loan-out, helped by a fresh-faced kid from South Carolina named
Stanley Donen, who directed all of Kelly's dance numbers.
Dave Kehr
The screening on Sunday 16 June will be introduced by season curator David Benedict.
Here is an extract.
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