Week-End in Havana
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| Week-End in Havana | |
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| Directed by | Walter Lang |
| Produced by | William LeBaron |
| Written by | Karl Tunberg Darrell Ware |
| Starring | Alice Faye Carmen Miranda John Payne Cesar Romero |
| Music by | Mack Gordon |
| Cinematography | Ernest Palmer |
| Editing by | Allen McNeil |
| Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
| Release date(s) | October 8, 1941 |
| Running time | 81 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Week-End in Havana (Aka: A Week-End in Havana & That Week-End in Havana) is a 1941 Fox musical film directed by Walter Lang. The movie stars Alice Faye and Carmen Miranda. It was the second of three pictures the two stars made together and the second Faye film to have a Latin-American theme, typical for Fox musicals of the early 1940s. Faye was pregnant during filming.
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[edit] Plot
Jay Williams is a ship company employee who is going to be sent to a riff in Florida. The ship he is traveling on, gets stuck. Every traveler is happy with the presence of Jay, except for the beautiful Nan Spencer. Nan thinks her vacation is being ruined. Jay takes her out for a good time and they soon fall in love.
[edit] Cast
- Alice Faye as Nan Spencer
- Carmen Miranda as Rosita Rivas
- John Payne as Jay Williams
- Cesar Romero as Monte Blanca
- Cobina Wright as Terry McCracken
- George Barbier as Walter McCracken
- Sheldon Leonard as Boris
- Leonid Kinskey as Rafael, a bellhop
- Billy Gilbert as Arbolado
[edit] Soundtrack
- A Week-End in Havana
- Music by Harry Warren
- Lyrics by Mack Gordon
- Sung by Carmen Miranda in the opening number with chorus and band
- Reprised by an offscreen chorus during the montage in Havana
- Played as background music often
- Rebola a Bola (Embolada)
- Music by Aloysio De Oliveira and Nestor Amaral
- Lyrics by Francisco Eugenio Brant Horta
- Sung in Portuguese by Carmen Miranda in a nightclub
- When I Love, I Love
- Music by Harry Warren
- Lyrics by Mack Gordon
- Sung by Carmen Miranda at a nightclub
- Tropical Magic
- Music by Harry Warren
- Lyrics by Mack Gordon
- Spanish lyrics by Ernesto Piedra
- Sung in Spanish by an unidentified trio in a nightclub. Many historians agree that this trio consisted of Francisco Mayorga, Luis Santos, and Joseph Garcia. (The Guadalajara Trio.)
- Reprised by Alice Faye
- Reprised by Alice Faye and John Payne on a hay wagon
- Reprised a cappella by Leonid Kinskey
- Played as background music often
- Romance and Rhumba
- Music by James V. Monaco
- Lyrics by Mack Gordon
- Sung by Alice Faye and Cesar Romero while dancing, the other dancers
- The Man with the Lollypop Song
- Music by Harry Warren
- Lyrics by Mack Gordon
- Sung by lollipop vendor Nacho Galindo outside Arbolado's
- The Nango (Nyango)
- Music by Harry Warren
- Lyrics by Mack Gordon
- Sung by Carmen Miranda at the nightclub
- Sung and danced to by the chorus
- Danced to by Alice Faye and John Payne
- The World Is Waiting to Waltz Again
- Music by Harry Warren
- Lyrics by Mack Gordon
- (Cut from picture)
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