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Rating:  - Great old movie
If you love Betty Grable and Don Amiche and great tap dancing, this is your movie. The plot is pretty thin but people like Carmen Mirandi and other great character actors make for great enjoyment. If you want to forget your troubles for 76 minutes, this is the movie that will do it.
Rating: - Grable and Company Can't Lose
How can you go wrong with this shinning star??? Can't wipe the smile off your face from watching Ms. Grable.
Rating: - BETTY GRABLE;s first starring film...and it is delightful...
A very bright, colorful, entertaining film...with many wonderful
specialties: Carmen Miranda )Her first film)...The Nicholas Brothers...
unforgetable dance sequence...and Charlot Greenwood...all make this
a sparkling entertainment. AND...it still sparkles after 67 years.
O.K...you don't need to win at JEOPARDY to enjoy this...but it is what
it is...a circa 1940 TECHNICOLOR Fox musical...Betty is beautiful and
elegantly dressed...the music is pleasant...the color is bright...if
that isn't enough...well...you can buy CASABLANCA.
Rating:  - May I introduce Carmen Miranda......
DOWN ARGENTINE WAY has a simplistic and forgettable plot (Betty Grable is a wealthy young heiress with a penchant for raising and purchasing horses, and ends up in Latin America, falling for suave Don Ameche, yadda, yadda, yadda.). What makes this stand out is the musical numbers, and, of course, the entrance of Carmen Miranda with some of her most popular music (including "South American Way"). Though, this was Carmen Miranda's introduction and debut on the silver screen, in the United States, it wasn't her first film. Miranda made several films in her adoptive country of Brazil (she was born in Portugal). Though, she is charming here, I find it poignant to watch. Carmen Miranda's life was not joyful, though, it was hard to believe for many because she put a brave face on in the public eye and exuded a (rather forced) atmosphere of joy whenever she made an entrance in a film. Still worth a look! It's bubbly fun and Miranda does make you forget "in the South American way."
Rating:  - Everything about this little demon was larger than life...
Carmen Miranda, known as "The Brazilian Bombshell", was the original Chica Chica Bum Chic gal of forties musicals - a large swash of Rousseau on the movie screens, a festive explosion of outrageous razzmatazz that may not have added much to culture but did add a lot to one's enjoyment of it...
Everything about this happy demon (except her height) was larger than life: her behavior; her struggles with the English language as it tripped its way into her head and out through her mouth in accents thick and hilarious; her eyes as they shrank into slits and lost themselves behind her cheeks rising and swelling through the effort required to pronounce her tongue-twisting lyrics at rapid speed; the continual motion of eyes, mouth, shoulders, hips, arms, hands, fingers and feet, the latter supported by elevated platforms that heightened her appeal, and the ever more extravagant gowns that have inspired nightclub performers ever since - garlands of sequins, bowers of living blooms around her hips and breasts, and orchards of fruit growing out of her turbans...
The total effect was that of some medieval fertility ritual goddess whose presence was a promise of fruitfulness...
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