That Night in Rio

That Night in Rio (1941)

Have a rendezvous with music and gaiety !

An entertainer in Rio impersonates a wealthy aristocrat. When the aristocrat's wife asks him to carry the impersonation further, complications ensue.

Date of release
1941-04-11
TMDB
6.2 / 10 (21)
Runtime
1h 31m
Genres
Comedy, Music, Romance
Director
Irving Cummings

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Based on: The red cat

That Night in Rio is a 1941 American Technicolor musical comedy film directed by Irving Cummings and starring Alice Faye, Don Ameche and Carmen Miranda. It was produced and distributed by Hollywood Twentieth Century Fox. It is one of several film adaptations of the 1934 play The Red Cat by Rudolf Lothar and Hans Adler. Others are Folies Bergère de Paris (1935) and On the Riviera (1951).

Production

The working titles for the film initially included A Latin from Manhattan, Rings on Her Fingers, They Met in Rio, and finally, The Road to Rio. Twentieth Century-Fox had to change the title to That Night in Rio due to a conflict with Paramount Pictures, which did not want the studio to promote the film for at least six months after the release of Road to Zanzibar, in order to avoid confusion with the similar titles.

The film's screenplay, written by George Seaton, Bess Meredyth, and Hal Long, is a remake of Folies Bergère de Paris (1935), directed by Roy Del Ruth and starring Maurice Chevalier, Merle Oberon, and Ann Sothern. It is based on the original play The Red Cat by Hans Adler, which premiered in New York on September 19, 1934. The head of production for the studio Fox, Darryl F.

That Night in Rio marked the sixth and final collaboration between Alice Faye and Don Ameche. In the film, they even recorded a version of the song "Chica Chica Boom Chic" as a dance number, but only the sequence between Ameche and Carmen Miranda made it into the final cut.

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