The DVD cover is in glorious technicolor and so I bit, curious to find out what all the Miranda hoopla was about. Surprise! There's no technicolor in the film. What possessed the producers to film Carmen Miranda in b/w? Why did Miranda - the 40s highest paid star in the 20thCFox musicals - agree to b/w? Other than this major disappointment, I liked the film. The plot is corny, but then the plots of most musical comedies are just filler between the songs and dances, so I wasn't upset. Groucho's 65-year-old wisecracks are funny and I laughed at every one of them. Andy Russell, the super nice male singer, was ... well, who was Andy Russell? ... but his voice was pleasant to listen to. The closing production number with the whole gang on the Copa stage was fabulous and Groucho was obviously having a lot of fun swing dancing with Miranda. This ending is one I can watch again and again and feel joyously happy.
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