That Night in Rio

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name = That Night in Rio


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director = Irving Cummings
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writer = Rudolph Lothar (play)
Hans Adler (play)
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starring = Don Ameche
Alice Faye
Carmen Miranda
music = Mack Gordon
Harry Warren
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distributor = 20th Century Fox
released = April 11 1941
runtime = 91 minutes
country = USA
language = English
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imdb_id = 0034273

"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)".

Cast

*Don Ameche as Larry Martin / Baron Manuel Duarte
*Alice Faye as Baroness Cecilia Duarte
*Carmen Miranda as Carmen, Larry's girlfriend
*S. Z. Sakall as Arthur Penna
*J. Carroll Naish as Machado, Manuel Duarte's business rival
*Curt Bois as Felicio Salles
*Leonid Kinskey as Monsieur Pierre Dufond
*Frank Puglia as Pedro, Manuel's valet
*Lillian Porter as Luiza, Cecilia's maid
*Maria Montez as Inez

External links

*tcmdb title|id=92714