Nancy Goes to Rio (1950) on Netflix
Frances Elliott expects the lead in playwright Ricardo Domingos's next production. Her daughter Nancy Barklay, an aspiring actress, is offered the part instead, and both end up in Rio de Janeiro.
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Plot summary
Frances Elliott, a Broadway leading lady, hosts a party after her show closes. Her father Gregory, an actor, and her seventeen-year-old daughter Nancy Barklay, who hopes to act, are among the guests, along with the Brazilian playwright Ricardo Domingos, who is weighing Frances for his next production. Ricardo tells her producer privately that he pictures a younger actress in the role, and once he sees Nancy perform in Connecticut he offers her the part. Frances has already sailed for Rio de Janeiro to study her lines, and Gregory has gone with her. Nancy accepts and follows them, and on the crossing the businessman Paul Berten overhears her rehearsing and takes her for a deserted wife expecting a baby.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Nancy Goes to Rio (1950)
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- Nancy Goes to Rio was the final film Ann Sothern made under her MGM contract, after which she soon moved into a run of television sitcoms.
