Week-End in Havana

Week-End in Havana

Infobox_Film
name = Week-End in Havana


caption = Theatrical Poster
writer = Karl Tunberg
Darrell Ware
starring = Alice Faye
Carmen Miranda
John Payne
Cesar Romero
director = Walter Lang
producer = William LeBaron
music = Mack Gordon
cinematography = Ernest Palmer
editing = Allen McNeil
distributor = 20th Century Fox
released = October 8, 1941
runtime = 81 minutes
country = United States
language = English
budget =
amg_id =
imdb_id = 0034379|

"Week-End in Havana" is a 1941 Fox musical film directed by George Marshall. The movie stars Alice Faye and Carmen Miranda. Faye was pregnant during filming.

Plot

Jay Williams is a ship company employee who is going to be send to a riff in Florida. The ship he is traveling on, gets stuck. Every traveler is happy with the presence of Jay, except for the beautiful Nan Spencer. Nan thinks her vacation is being ruined. Jay takes her out for a good time and they soon fall in love.

Cast

* Alice Faye – "Miss Nan Spencer"
* Carmen Miranda – "Rosita Rivas"
* John Payne – "Jay Williams"
* Cesar Romero – "Monte Blanca"
* Cobina Wright – "Terry McCracken"
* George Barbier – "Mr. Walter McCracken"
* Sheldon Leonard – "Boris"
* Leonid Kinskey – "Rafael - bellhop"
* Billy Gilbert – "Arbolado"

oundtrack

*A Week-End in Havana
**Music by Harry Warren
**Lyrics by Mack Gordon
**Sung by Carmen Miranda in the opening number with chorus and band
**Reprised by an offscreen chorus during the montage in Havana
**Played as background music often
*Rebola a Bola (Embolada)
**Music by Aloysio De Oliveira and Nestor Amaral
**Lyrics by Francisco Eugenio Brant Horta
**Sung in Spanish by Carmen Miranda in a nightclub
*When I Love, I Love
**Music by Harry Warren
**Lyrics by Mack Gordon
**Sung by Carmen Miranda at a nightclub
*Tropical Magic
**Music by Harry Warren
**Lyrics by Mack Gordon
**Spanish lyrics by Ernesto Piedra
**Sung in Spanish by an unidentified trio in a nightclub
**Reprised by Alice Faye
**Reprised by Alice Faye and John Payne on a hay wagon
**Reprised a cappella by Leonid Kinskey
**Played as background music often
*Romance and Rhumba
**Music by James V. Monaco
**Lyrics by Mack Gordon
**Sung by Alice Faye and Cesar Romero while dancing, the other dancers
*The Man with the Lollypop Song
**Music by Harry Warren
**Lyrics by Mack Gordon
**Sung by lollypop vendor Nacho Galindo outside Arbolado's
*The Nango (Nyango)
**Music by Harry Warren
**Lyrics by Mack Gordon
**Sung by Carmen Miranda at the nightclub
**Sung and danced to by the chorus
**Danced to by Alice Faye and John Payne
*The World Is Waiting to Waltz Again
**Music by Harry Warren
**Lyrics by Mack Gordon
**(Cut from picture)

External links

*imdb title|id=0034379|title=Week-End in Havana


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