Nancy Goes to Rio

Nancy Goes to Rio is a musical comedy film released by MetroGoldwynMayer in 1950. It was directed by Robert Z. Leonard and produced by Joe Pasternak from a screenplay by Sidney Sheldon, based on a story by Ralph Block, Frederick Kohner, and Jane Hall. The music was directed and supervised by George Stoll and includes compositions by George and Ira Gershwin, Giacomo Puccini, Jack Norworth, and Stoll.

On the closing night of a Broadway play, leading actress Frances Elliott Ann Sothern hosts a party attended by many guests, including her eccentric father Gregory Louis Calhern, who is also an actor her seventeenyearold daughter, Nancy Barklay Jane Powell, an aspiring actress and Brazilian playwright Ricardo Domingos, who is considering starring Frances in his next play.Frances eagerly pursues the part in Ricardos play, and though she is virtually assured of the role, Ricardo asks her not publicize the news until a final decision is made. Later, Ricardo privately tells Frances producer that Frances may not be right for the part and that he had a younger actress in mind. Then, when Ricardo meets Nancy, he instantly knows that he has found the perfect young woman for the role. ........

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