That Night In Rio (1941)

A womanizing American nightclub entertainer (Don Ameche) performing in Rio de Janeiro does an impeccable impersonation of a local celebrity, a Brazilian Baron (Don Ameche). When the Baron must leave Rio immediately to secure a business deal, his two aides (S.Z. Sakall, Curt Bois) arrange to have the American impersonate the Baron at a business function as well as a party the Baroness (Alice Faye) is giving for Rio society. Based on the play THE RED CAT by Rudolph Lothar and Hans Adler and directed by Irving Cummings (DOWN ARGENTINE WAY). This Technicolor musical romp is intermittently amusing with the daffy Carmen Miranda doing her usual "chicka chicka boom" shtick. The affable Ameche is surprisingly good in a dual role, nicely delineating the differences in character while Alice Faye is stuck in the dreary wife part. Remade (but not necessarily better) in 1951 as ON THE RIVIERA with Danny Kaye. With Maria Montez, J. Carrol Naish and Leonid Kinskey.