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Release Date: 1941 Cast: Lillian Porter, J. Carrol Naish, S.Z. Sakall, María Montez, Georges Renavent, Frank Puglia, Fortunio Bonanova, Alice Faye, Don Ameche, Leonid Kinskey, Curt Bois, Carmen Miranda
Categories: Movies, Romantic comedy, Comedy, Romance Film, Musical, Musical comedy That Night in Rio is a 1941 musical comedy film starring Alice Faye, Carmen Miranda and Don Ameche (in a dual role as an American entertainer and an aristocratic businessman he is asked to impersonate temporarily). It is one of several film adaptations of a play called The Red Cat by Rudolph Lothar and Hans Adler. Others are Folies Bergère de Paris (1935) and On the Riviera (1951).
The original songs for the film were written by the musical partnership of Harry Warren and Mack Gordon. These include: "Boa Noite", "They Met in Rio (A Midnight Serenade)", "Chica Chica Boom Chic" and "I, Yi,... MORE
That Night in Rio is a 1941 musical comedy film starring Alice Faye, Carmen Miranda and Don Ameche (in a dual role as an American entertainer and an aristocratic businessman he is asked to impersonate temporarily). It is one of several film adaptations of a play called The Red Cat by Rudolph Lothar and Hans Adler. Others are Folies Bergère de Paris (1935) and On the Riviera (1951).
The original songs for the film were written by the musical partnership of Harry Warren and Mack Gordon. These include: "Boa Noite", "They Met in Rio (A Midnight Serenade)", "Chica Chica Boom Chic" and "I, Yi, Yi, Yi, Yi (I Like You Very Much)".
Larry Martin (Ameche) is an American entertainer in the Casino Samba in Rio de Janiero. 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 (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 (Miranda), and invites her to a party he is going to hold. Carmen declines.
Later in the evening, Larry meets Cecilia and is attracted to her singing and LESS
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