Down Argentine Way
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Movie Reviews of Down Argentine Way
Movie Review: Local color
Summary: 2 Stars
The color for DOWN ARGENTINE WAY is spectacular--the costumes (which range from the sublime to the ridiculous, but are always memorable) could not be sharper, and the stock footage of the broad avenues of Buenos Aires could not be more vivid. Perhaps in part that explains why this very forgettable 20th-Century Fox musical was such an enormous hit; it certainly wasn't because of the nothing plot, which has something to do with an Argentine playboy (Dom Ameche) whose father won't sell his champion horses to a rich American woman (Betty Grable) and her family. One of the horses meant as a jumper turns out to be much better as a track racer, which the actors try hard to sell as interesting (a lost cause). Because Fox's usual blonde musical star, Alice Faye, was ill, this film vaulted her substitute Betty Grable to superstardom. Grable certainly has more sex appeal than Faye and was a better dancer, but without Faye's great dusky voice to put it over, something certainly seems lost when Grable gets to introduce the snappy "Down Argentina Way." Everyone keeps turning up to entertain Ameche and GHrable in Argentina, including the Nicholas Brothers (fantastic as always) and, in her American feature film debut, the Brazilian Carmen Miranda, who sings "Mama Yo Quiero" and was made as a big a star from this film as Grable was.