NekoHomey Purely Joyful Movie!

Flyerplesys Perfectly adorable

ReaderKenka Let's be realistic.

Raymond Sierra The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

Robert J. Maxwell Rita Hayworth is alluring and I know the song writers are a famous team and all that but I didn't hear a memorable number in the score. I have to admit I only watched this piece of fluff with one eye, so I may have missed a good dance or two. Marc Platt is accomplished and, of course, Hayworth used to be Margarita Cansino, part of a Spanish dance team before she was glamorized by Harry Cohn.Rita Hayworth and Janet Blair have a colorful number in which the duo sing about the boy they left behind while prancing around in form-fitting long johns -- Blair pink, Hayworth blue.Lee Bowman provides the male glamor as an RAF officer, though he's no more convincing than usual. Some events during the blitz dampen the light-hearted ambiance.It's not worth going out of your way to watch although it's a minor divertissement.

writers_reign This is nothing so much as a prototype for London Town, i.e. Hollywood attempting disastrously to set a musical in London. Though they couldn't come out and say so the inspiration for what plot there is came from the Windmill - 'we never closed' - a striptease theatre below street level that remained open all through the blitz with Florence Bates in the role of Mrs Henderson albeit under a Jane Doe. It was virtually impossible to photograph Rita Hayworth badly but her gorgeous looks are really all this dire movie has going for it. It's also proof that Jule Styne and Sammy Cahn could actually write ho-hum numbers and is arguably by a country mile the worst score they ever penned. Lee Bowman is something of a joke as a leading man; clean-cut looks and superficial charm do not a Leading Man make. Definitely worth missing.

clfandjdf When I first saw this movie I was a 13 year old boy in love with Rita Hayworth. In many ways the movie is a typical 40's musical chick flick. What is not typical is the story based on real events in London during the blitz instead of a contrived plot to frame the musical numbers. (See the recent "Mrs. Henderson Presents".) The story has bravery and tragedy as well as the usual romance and fluff. Also above average are the score by Jule Styne and Sammy Cahn as well as the talents of Rita Hayworth, Janet Blair (in a strong second banana role), and Marc Platt, the dancer who went on to be one of the brothers in "Seven Brides For Seven Brothers". Without giving away the ending, have your hankie ready.

blanche-2 Rita Hayworth is an American performer during the blitz in "Tonight and Every Night." The film is based on the true story of a theater that kept going during the horrific bombings London suffered, unlike other theaters, which closed their doors. In the film, a photographer from Life arrives to do a feature about the theater and hears a story about Rita and friends from a stagehand.What a gorgeous woman and dancer Rita was, and what charisma! She sparkles on the screen and is stunningly beautiful in this Technicolor film. She looks like her magazine covers - perfect. Lee Bowman is her leading man, Janet Blair plays her best friend, and Marc Platt, a Broadway dancer who is an absolute dynamo, plays a fellow performer.There really isn't much to this script, except that there's a somewhat unexpected plot twist and the ending isn't as expected. We're looking in one direction while the script goes in another. There are some nifty production numbers and some pretty songs - better, I think, than those found in another Hayworth vehicle, Down to Earth.Rita's voice is always dubbed, but I wonder if she could sing or could have sung with some training. Guess we'll never know.Seeing Rita is always worth it.