I'm floored, I 'm devastated, I could never imagine I would enjoy this film as immensely as I just did.Yesterday I saw "The Lady is Willing" -1942- with Marlene Dietrich, and although both films belong to the same era and in both there is froth and the morality of the time, they are worlds apart; Marlene looks like an embalmed corpse while Rita Hayworth is Mother Earth personified, all beauty, glamour and warmth, plus an excellent actress and a superb dancer, maybe the best dancer of all times for this kind of vehicle."Tonight and Every Night" is so very well put together that it's almost a miracle, incredible how professional those people were!! Top drawer each one in whatever they were doing: The scriptwriters, the technical film crew, the dancers, the choreographers, wow, everybody and everything!! Let aside the war propaganda very understandable for those years, I was so impressed by the camaraderie, the human bondage between the company members, the warmth the whole movie is wrapped in...Rita Hayworth is so lovely that seems to be unreal, but not unreal the way Marlene was unreal, Marlene could freeze you on the spot with just a look, Rita doesn't look fake, she is just adorable and human. Maybe the rouge on her cheeks and the eye shadow are a bit too much, but the whole movie being a fantasy, who cares! The costumes are gorgeous, the color combinations are superb, all the dancers, male and female, have the most slender figures anyone can imagine, they look like Barbie dolls, but human --I don't know how to put it-- we talk so much nowadays about that controversial subject, anorexia, well, already in those years they have these slim figures we have nowadays, but inexplicably, they don't look emaciated, they look incredibly healthy!! An interesting detail was that all these chorus girls were...virgins... well, according to their behavior in this movie they were. Enough, I think I made it clear that I liked this movie, didn't I?

First off, I must be honest and tell you that I am not a huge fan of musicals. Sure, I have enjoyed films like GIGI and THE SOUND OF MUSIC and I also like the Astaire-Rogers films, but usually I avoid musicals because they are either very stagy or there doesn't seem to be any reason for them to be singing in the first place. So keep this in mind when reading the review.The film is about a theatre in London that remained open throughout the Blitz. Because it is a dance hall, the singing and dancing that occur look like scaled-down versions of a Ziegfeld Follies show--exactly the sort of stagy musical I dislike. However, due to a nice romance between Rita Hayworth and Lee Bowman (though it does develop way too quickly) and a few good songs (particularly the emotional and heart-wrenching one at the conclusion), the film is an amiable time-passer. However, for fans of STAR WARS, I do recommend you see this film just for one musical number featuring Miss Hayworth. Towards the very beginning, she has her hair up in weird buns just like Princess Leia!!! So you can see where they got the inspiration for this awful doo!

This is perhaps the worst movie musical ever to emerge from a major Hollywood studio. Everything about it is bad, especially the cheesy sets, the rotten script, and the utterly forgettable music. Check out the dance number with Rita Hayworth and Janet Blair in their long-johns. Poor Rita. Avoid this film unless you're into really bad flicks, just for laughs.

'Tonight and Every Night' gets its title from a London theater that never failed to give a performance despite the constant air raids during the blitz of World War II. The story involves a showgirl (Rita Hayworth) and her romance with a British flyer (Lee Bowman). While the plot is minimal, the lavish technicolor treatment of individual song numbers is impressive and Rita was never photographed more beautifully. No wonder she was labeled "The Love Goddess" -- the camera certainly loved her too!More serious elements of the plot involve another showgirl (Janet Blair) and her untimely death in a bombing. Of course, in true show biz fashion, it's chin up and the show must go on. Lee Bowman and Marc Platt lend solid support, as well as that dependable character actress Florence Bates as a theater manager. Janet Blair and Rita Hayworth have an amusing war skit routine. If you're a Hayworth fan, this is a must see!