Down Argentine Way (1940) on Netflix
Approved19401h 29mComedyDramaMusical
Ricardo Quintana is leaving Argentina for New York to sell his father's prize horses, none of which may go to Binnie Crawford or her family. At a racetrack he meets Glenda Crawford.
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Plot summary
Don Diego Quintana tells his son Ricardo that none of the family's horses may be sold to Binnie Crawford or to any of her relatives, since Binnie's brother Willis cheated him years ago. Ricardo sails from Argentina to New York to sell his father's prize horses. At a racetrack where he shows them he meets Glenda Crawford, and the two have dinner. When he learns that she is Binnie's niece, he declines to sell her the animal she has picked out, and her friend Helen buys it instead.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Down Argentine Way (1940)
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- The film was banned in Argentina after being "hissed off the screens" by audiences for misrepresenting the country's culture with Mexican and Caribbean mannerisms and costumes, and in 1941 an attache at the American Embassy in Buenos Aires reported it had ceased being shown there because of its "ridiculous and disturbing images".
- Betty Grable was cast as a replacement for Alice Faye, who was originally intended for the female lead but became ill; Faye appeared in the follow-up films That Night in Rio and Week-End in Havana, which again feature Carmen Miranda.
- Carmen Miranda was performing South American songs in the Broadway production The Streets of Paris at the time, so although she is a prominent participant in the film she spent no time in Hollywood.
