Down Argentine Way
by Irving Cummings
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Actor: Betty Grable, Carmen Miranda, Charlotte Greenwood, Don Ameche, J. Carrol NaishDirector: Irving Cummings
Brand: Twentieth Century Fox
Cinematographer: Leon Shamroy
Producer: Darryl F. Zanuck
Producer: Harry Joe Brown
Writer: Darrell Ware
Writer: Karl Tunberg
Writer: Ralph Spence
Writer: Rian James
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 1.0; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); Spanish (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 1.0
Format: Color, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 89 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-06-13
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Movie Reviews of Down Argentine Way
Movie Review: splashy musical delight!
Summary: 4 Stars
Alice Faye's loss was Betty Grable's gain when the resident female musical star at Fox took ill shortly before filming was due to start on DOWN ARGENTINE WAY. The unknown young chorus girl took on the lead role in Fox's lavish Technicolor treat, one of the most successful box office attractions in 1940, and cemented her position as the new face of Fox musicals.
Co-starring regular players of the period like Charlotte Greenwood, Don Ameche and Carmen Miranda (in her American film debut), the plot merely acts as an excuse for some of the most enjoyable musical sequences ever committed to film. Carmen Miranda performs "Bambu Bambu", "Mam?e Eu Quero", and "South American Way". Even in this earliest of American movie roles she's a complete joy, with her fractured English and infectious screen persona. Betty Grable proves herself admirably in her first starring role, singing and dancing with Don Ameche to "Two Dreams Met (Dos Sue?os)". Technicolor bathes the 'exotic' locales in grand fashion--the film was primarily shot on the Fox backlot.
Betty Grable rocketed to fame following her breakout performance in DOWN ARGENTINE WAY. Alice Faye was beginning to wind down her career at this point, having earned raves for "Lillian Russell" in 1940, and with only a handful of films ("That Night in Rio", "The Great American Broadcast", "Week-End in Havana", "Hello, Frisco, Hello", "Four Jills in a Jeep", "The Gang's All Here") remaining on her Fox contract before she officially retired in 1944. It was Betty Grable's rapid rise to fame at Fox which largely caused her to walk away from the spotlight. Fox tried to groom the glamorous red-headed nightclub singer Vivian Blaine as a possible replacement for Faye, and starred her opposite Carmen Miranda in some musicals which replicated the typical Alice Faye plots (although most were in black-and-white), but she never quite clicked with audiences, who preferred Grable's Technicolor treats "Moon Over Miami", "Pin-Up Girl" and "The Dolly Sisters" over Ms Blaine's relatively obscure "Greenwich Village", "If I'm Lucky" and "Doll Face".
Splashy musical fun for the whole family.
Summary of Down Argentine Way
Betty Grable and Don Ameche fall in love but their fathers intervene. Includes classic performances by Carmen Miranda.Comedy DVD Video
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