HOLIDAY IN MEXICO

I Think Of You by Jack Elliot and Don Marcotte; Walter Winchell Rhumba by Carl Sigman and Noro Morales; Yo Te Amo Mucho (And That's That) by Sammy Stept, Ervin Drake, Cugat and Morales; You, So It's You by Earl Brent and Nacio Herb Brown; And Dreams Remain by Ralph Freed and Raoul Soler; Holiday in Mexico by Freed and Sammy Fain; Ave Maria by Schubert; Les Filles Des Cadiz by Leo Delibes; Italian Street Song by Victor Herbert and Rida Johnson Young; Goodnight Sweetheart by Ray Noble, James Campbell and Reg Connelly; Three Blind Mice arranged by Andre Previn; The Music Goes Round and Round by Red Hodgson, Ed Farley and Mike Riley; Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor; Polonaise in A Flat Major; Liebestod by Wagner.

PLOT SYNOPSIS

"Ambassador Jeffrey Evans (Walter Pidgeon), a widower living in Mexico, has his hands full with his teenage daughter Christine (Jane Powell). Christine runs the entire household and tries to manage her father's private life as well. But love threatens to wreck all her carefully made plans: an earnest young classmate (Roddy McDowall) is hopelessly in love with her. . .Ambassador Evans is smitten with a beautiful singer (Ilona Massey). . .and poor Christine isn't sure where she fits in anymore! Top top it all off, Christine develops a crush on famed pianist Jose Iturbi, who is much older than she."
- Liner Notes from Turner/MGM/UA Videotape

NOTES

"Produced by Joe Pasternak in rather garish Technicolor and with a characteristically Pasternakian mixture of popular classics and contemporary music, it appealed to a large cross-section of audiences and registered a healthy box-office."
- Clive Hirschhorn, The Hollywood Musical

"Travel brochure musical in which the occasional plums do not redeem the sogginess of the pudding."
- Halliwell's Film Guide


Fidel Castro is rumored to have been an extra in this film.

Holiday In Mexico was one of the top-grossing films of 1946. See Box Office Hits

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