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Carnival in Costa Rica (1947)
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19 May 1947 (Sweden)
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MAGNIFICO! TERRIFICO! (original print media ad - all caps)
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Two pairs of lovers try to thwart an arranged marriage at Costa Rican fiesta time. full summary | add synopsis
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Worth seeing because of the great dancer Leonide Massine.
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Cast
(Complete credited cast) | Dick Haymes | ... | Jeff Stephens |
| Vera-Ellen | ... | Luisa Molina |
 | Cesar Romero | ... | Pepe Castro |
 | Celeste Holm | ... | Celeste |
 | Anne Revere | ... | Mama Elsa Molina |
| J. Carrol Naish | ... | Papa Rico Molina |
| Pedro de Cordoba | ... | Papa Castro |
| Barbara Whiting | ... | Maria Molina |
| Nestor Paiva | ... | Padre Rafael |
| Fritz Feld | ... | Hotel Clerk |
| Tommy Ivo | ... | Juan Molina |
 | Mimi Aguglia | ... | Mama Castro |
| Ernesto Lecuona | ... | Himself, bandleader (as Lecuona Cuban Boys) |
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97 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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1.37 : 1 more
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Mono (Western Electric Recording)
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Cameo: [Leonide Massine]the film's choreographer is the unnamed "famous dancer" with Vera-Ellen in the first production scene.
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Continuity: During Louisa's dream wedding sequence, her sister Maria disappears and then reappears from the background.
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Referenced in "The Monkees: Monkees Marooned (#2.8)" (1967)
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Soundtrack:
RUMBA BOMBA
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I saw this movie in 1947 when it first was released. Mainly because I was a young dance student at that time and I wanted to see the great Leonide Massine, famous because of his discovery by Serge Diaghilev and the Ballet Russe. He replaced the great Vaslav Nijinsky. He appeared in this film during his latter years, but even so you can see what a great dancer he was.
Unfortunately, the producers of this film did not really understand or appreciate his fame and greatness, or give him proper credit. He could have been just another studio dancer. Vera Ellen had a hard time keeping up with him during their only dance sequence.
Interesting that Massine, who came from Moscow and was a Russian trained in the Russina ballet, became such a wonderful Spanish dancer.
This seems to have been his forte and shows well in this film. A pity that I was too young to ever have seen him on the stage. But his choreography is continually revived by ballet companies the world over.