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Don Ameche: Alice Faye
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Ameche's first big film was the Technicolor adventure romance, "Ramona" (1936), which cast him (rather oddly, in retrospect) as a Native American opposite Loretta Young. Over the course of the next fifteen years, he would serenade Sonja Henie in her first skating fest ("One in a Million" 1936), romance Joan Bennett in a bomb shelter ("Confirm or Deny" 1941) and threaten Claudette Colbert's life ("Sleep My Love" 1948). His very pleasant singing voice made him a suitable partner for Betty Grable in "Moon Over Miami" (1941), though the Fox musical blonde he was most often paired with was honey-voiced Alice Faye, with whom he made six films. Two of their best were lavish historical sagas: the famous one about the Chicago fire, "In Old Chicago" (1938), with Ameche as the upstanding son contrasted with engaging bad boy Tyrone Power; and the biopic of legendary entertainer "Lillian Russell" (1940). He and Faye ... paired for the affectionate recreation of early Hollywood slapstick "Hollywood Cavalcade" (1939), with Ameche playing a thinly disguised rendition of Mack Sennett.
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Larry Martin looks exactly like Baron Duarte--and no wonder, since they are both played by Don Ameche. He finds himself entwined with both a fiery Brazilian samba goddess (Carmen Miranda) and a discontented countess (Alice Faye) with plenty of time for dazzling Technicolor musical interludes. Regardless of the political benefits resulting from the World War II “Good Neighbor Policy,” it had a splendid effect on 1940s musicals. Movies were filled with jubilant Latin numbers and the infusion of samba, rhumba and conga beats blended with the infectious rhythms of the jitterbug era still swing. That Night in Rio is remarkable for both Carmen Miranda’s singular samba tunes and Alice Faye throaty contralto voice. Faye's blonde curls and lush curves amticipate Marilyn Monroe’s and her songs are extremely sensual adding to the erotic confusion and some double entendre dialogue unusual for strictly censored Hollywood films of the Production Code Era.
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A fascinating film about silent era Hollywood stars Don Ameche and Alice Faye (thinly veiled Mack Sennett and Mabel Normand) as a producer and his comedienne star. Also starring J. Edward Bromberg and in cameos Buster Keaton and Al Jolson. Technicolor. Excellent quality.
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