This is the film that launched Betty Grable into stardom at Fox when Alice Faye had to bow out due to pregnancy. Betty makes the most of her chance to show off her famous legs, warble a couple of tunes and shake her hips to some Latin music. Don Ameche is her lucky co-star and for good measure Fox introduced Carmen Miranda to American audiences for a couple of song numbers filmed elsewhere while she was doing nightclub work in New York. Miranda has no interaction with the players in what little plot there is.
Henry Stephenson is on hand with a Spanish accent, but it's Leonid Kinskey who steals the show as a guide/gigolo who takes Betty on a nightclub tour while she's under the impression he's an embassy worker. Charlotte Greenwood gets her high kicking routine into the act by the finale and everyone is happy that rival families have straightened out their feud over some nonsense about a horse race.
It's the racing aspects of the story that bored me--too much time at the track. But the songs are plentiful (if not terribly memorable), the color is bright, the smooth teaming of Ameche and Grable is pleasant to watch, and for all practical purposes the whole silly thing works as fluffy entertainment--bubble gum for the mind.
Henry Stephenson is on hand with a Spanish accent, but it's Leonid Kinskey who steals the show as a guide/gigolo who takes Betty on a nightclub tour while she's under the impression he's an embassy worker. Charlotte Greenwood gets her high kicking routine into the act by the finale and everyone is happy that rival families have straightened out their feud over some nonsense about a horse race.
It's the racing aspects of the story that bored me--too much time at the track. But the songs are plentiful (if not terribly memorable), the color is bright, the smooth teaming of Ameche and Grable is pleasant to watch, and for all practical purposes the whole silly thing works as fluffy entertainment--bubble gum for the mind.