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Nancy Goes To Rio

NANCY GOES TO RIO

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CREDITS

1950, 99 minutes, Technicolor.
Producer, Joe Pasternak; Director, Robert Z. Leonard; Screenplay, Sidney Sheldon; Cinematography, Ray June; Music Direction, George Stoll; Choreography, Nick Castle.

CAST

Nancy Barklay, Jane Powell; Frances Elliott, Ann Sothern; Paul Berten, Barry Sullivan; Marina Rodrigues, Carmen Miranda; Gregory Elliott, Louis Calhern; Scotty Sheldan, Scotty Beckett.

SONGS

Ca-Room Pa-Pa; Love Is Like This; Yipsee I-O by Ray Gilbert; Time And Time Again by Earl Brent and Fred Spielman; Nancy Goes To Rio by Brent and George Stoll; Shine On, Harvest Moon by Jack Norworth and Nora Bayes; Magic Is The Moonlight by Charles Pasquale and Maria Grever; Musetta's Waltz by Puccini; Embraceable You by George and Ira Gershwin.

PLOT

"Pert and precocious Nancy Barklay (Jane Powell) is up for the leading role in a Broadway musical set in Brazil, but her seasoned stage-star mother, Frances (Ann Sothern), thinks she's got the part! A sticky situation becomes impossibly complicated after Nancy follows her mother to Rio - where they both fall for the same man!"
- Liner Notes from MGM/Turner Laserdisc

NOTES

"Producer Joe Pasternak dusted off one of Deanna Durbin's old scripts (It's A Date, Universal, 1940). . .the musical programme accompanying the plot was a typical Pasternakian lucky-dip of the old and the new and the classical. . ."
- Clive Hirschhorn, The Hollywood Musical

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