That Night in Rio


That Night in Rio is a 1941 Technicolor American musical comedy film directed by Irving Cummings and starring Alice Faye, Don Ameche and Carmen Miranda 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 Rudolf Lothar and Hans Adler. Others are Folies Bergre de Paris 1935 and On the Riviera 1951.

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 Larrys impersonation. To the surprise of the couple, the act is amazingly realistic. Backstage, the Baron meets Larrys girlfriend, Carmen 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 her beauty. He does an impersonation of the Baron for her. But the real Baron receives a telegram that his airline is in danger because a contract is not being renewed and he has already purchased 51 of the stock. Needing money to repay the bank he borrowed it from, he flies down to Buenos Aires. ........

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