Fiesta

Fiesta (1947)

When a matador leaves town to focus on his music, his twin sister takes on his identity in the bullfighting ring.

Data lansării
1947-06-12
TMDB
6.2 / 10 (5)
Durată
1 h 44 min
Genuri
Dramă, Muzică, Romantic
Regizor
Richard Thorpe

Distribuție

Curiozități

  • Filmat în: Mexic
  • Premii: 0 · Nominalizări: 1

Fiesta is a 1947 American Technicolor musical drama film directed by Richard Thorpe and starring Esther Williams, Ricardo Montalbán, Mary Astor and Cyd Charisse. It was released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The screenplay was written by George Bruce and Lester Cole.

Production

In March 1945, producer Jack Cummings announced his next film would be Fiesta Brava ("Wonderful Holiday") with Esther Williams. It was based on a story that George Bruce had come up with after a two-month holiday in Mexico.

In September 1945, MGM announced Richard Thorpe would direct with filming to start in October. The same month Ricardo Montalban, married to Loretta Young's sister, was announced as Williams' co star.

The film took longer than expected because Thorpe decided that he did not want the bulls killed. However, this led to the bulls attacking the stuntmen, four of them ending up in the hospital, and two of them barely surviving after being gored in the groin due to infections caused by the dirt on the bulls' horns. (Williams was doubled by men.

Director of photography Sidney Wagner and one other crew member died of cholera after eating contaminated street food they had bought in town. Williams' husband, Ben Gage, was arrested after getting into a fight with an employee of the hotel at which the cast was staying, the same man who had recently shot the crew's doctor, who had yelled at him. Gage's arrest was covered by gossip columnist Hedda Hopper.

The studio insisted that Williams wear a traje de luces matador outfit for the film. Traditionally, the suit is made to lie very flat on the toreador's chest, and this proved to be difficult. The tailor in Mexico refused to work on the suit unless Williams "agreed to have her bosom surgically removed." Strohm had the suit sent back to Irene, MGM's costume designer in Hollywood, to be fitted to her body, which included closing the fly with hooks.

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