That Night in Rio
That Night in Rio is a 1941 American Technicolor musical comedy film directed by Irving Cummings and starring Alice Faye, Don Ameche (in a dual role as an American entertainer and an aristocratic businessman he is asked to impersonate temporarily) and Carmen Miranda. It was produced and distributed by Hollywood Twentieth Century Fox. It is one of several film adaptations of the 1934 play The Red Cat by Rudolf Lothar and Hans Adler. Others are Folies Bergère de Paris (1935) and On the Riviera (1951).
Plot
Larry Martin (Don Ameche) is an American entertainer in the Casino Samba in Rio de Janeiro. He has a skit in his show, making fun of the womanizing Baron Manuel Duarte (also Ameche). On one particular evening, the Baron and his wife, Baroness Cecilia Duarte (Alice Faye) come to see Larry's impersonation. To the surprise of the couple, the act is amazingly realistic. Backstage, the Baron meets Larry's girlfriend, Carmen (Carmen Miranda), and invites her to a party he is going to hold. Carmen declines.
More details
| author | Bess Meredyth George Seaton Hal Long Samuel Hoffenstein |
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| contentLocation | Rio de Janeiro |
| director | Irving Cummings |
| editor | Walter A. Thompson |
| genre | comedy |
| keywords | amaze buenos aires confuse end even flirt morning needing money sing stock market |
| musicBy | Alfred Newman Harry Warren |
| producer | Darryl F. Zanuck Fred Kohlmar |
| productionCompany | 20th Century Studios |
| publisher | 20th Century Fox |
| theme | musical comedy |