That Night in Rio (1941) on Netflix
Approved19411h 31mComedyMusicalRomance
In Rio de Janeiro, Larry Martin performs an act mocking the womanizing Baron Manuel Duarte. With the Baron away, Larry is engaged to pose as him and mislead a rival.
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Larry Martin is an American entertainer at the Casino Samba in Rio de Janeiro, where one skit makes fun of the womanizing Baron Manuel Duarte. The Baron and his wife, Cecilia Duarte, come to the show one evening and are startled by how true to life the act is. Backstage the Baron meets Carmen, Larry's girlfriend, and asks her to a party he is giving; she turns him down. Later that evening Larry meets Cecilia and puts on his Baron impersonation for her. The Baron receives a telegram saying a contract for his airline will not be renewed, and he has already bought 51 percent of its stock. He borrowed money from a bank and must repay it, so he flies to Buenos Aires. Larry is engaged to pose as the Baron and confuse his rival, Machado.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about That Night in Rio (1941)
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- Twentieth Century-Fox had to abandon its working title The Road to Rio and call the film That Night in Rio after Paramount Pictures objected: it did not want Fox promoting the film for six months after its own Road to Zanzibar, to avoid confusion between the similar titles.
- A report in the Motion Picture Production Code archives noted that That Night in Rio was rejected for distribution in Ireland, though no specific reason was given.
- It was the sixth and final collaboration between Alice Faye and Don Ameche; the pair even recorded a dance version of 'Chica Chica Boom Chic' for the film, but only Don Ameche's sequence with Carmen Miranda made the final cut.
- The screenplay was presented to the Brazilian ambassador in Washington, D.C., who approved it and stated it would be 'a useful type of film for relations between North and South America'.
