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Eros Volusia, Tom Conway, Lou Costello, Patricia Dane, Peter Whitney, John Carroll, Kathryn Grayson, Bud Abbott S. Sylvan Simon |
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Description: | Ziegfeld made 'em big. So the film version of his Rio Rita matched the showman's grandeur with a musical that adhered to the source and earned kudos as 'one of the best of the [Talkie Era's] Broadway adaptations' (Ethan Mordden, the Hollywood Musical). Bebe Daniels (often a Harold Lloyd co-star) plays Rita, wooed by a singing Texas Ranger (John Boles) who suspects her brother may be a notorious bandito. Meanwhile, a lawyer tries to arrange a divorce for a client who has (oops) two wives. Put the storylines together (somehow), add the wow of two-strip Technicolor for the lengthy finale aboard a pirate river barge, include lavish sets and the guffaws provided by Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey (reprising their stage roles) and Rio Rita was ready to and did pack audiences in. |
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Actors: |
Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Kathryn Grayson, John Carroll, Patricia Dane, Arthur Space, Dick Rich, Eva Puig, Joan Valerie, Eros Volusia, William Tannen, Tom Conway, Peter Whitney, Barry Nelson, Mitchell Lewis, David Oliver, Julian Rivero, Douglass Newland, Lee Murray, Inez Cooper, Jenny Mac, Vangie Beilby, Ruth Cherrington, Frank Penny, Robert Bradford, J. D. Jewkes, Nacho Galindo, Alfredo Garmo, Mercedes Ruffino, Morton Scott, Tudor Williams, The Guadalajara Trio, Flores Brothers |
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Director: |
S. Sylvan Simon |
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Producer: |
Pandro S. Berman |
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WARA632944DVD |
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