What a movie!
How can you go wrong with Groucho Marx and Carmen Miranda? There is a great supporting cast including Steve Cochran and the crooner Andy Russell. Groucho Marx plays Lionel Q Deveraux, a failed vaudville star/agent who switches to agent for his long time girlfriend/fiance Carmen Navarro. He gets her an audition at the Copacobana club as Carmen, a fun, lively brunette with a fruit basket on her head and then throws in a double bill getting her to audtion as Mademoiselle Fifi, a long legged blond with a veil covering her face.
If you know anything about Groucho Marx and/or Carmen Miranda, then you know there can only be silliness, pratfalls and hilarity. Just picture it, Carmen Miranda as a brunette, then running around to get upstairs to perform as a blond! Think she gets a little confused and winded? Groucho Marx is, well, Groucho Marx! ever on point and funny with his trademark moustache and cigar.
Check out some videos.
In the first one, as Carmen Navarro, you will even see Steve Cochran, Groucho Marx and Andy Russell!
Carmen Navarro http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFOogEdoQwo
Here is a video of Mlle singing:
Mlle Fifi http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ht0Hqc4E184
I would love to add this and other Carmen Miranda movies to my collection, she was something! Groucho Marx too!
Peaches Prattlings 