Ball in der Botschaft

Originaltitel: Holiday in Mexico

1946
12
2 Std. 8 Min.

IMDb-BEWERTUNG

IHRE BEWERTUNG

Füge eine Handlung in deiner Sprache hinzuThe U.S. Ambassador's (Walter Pidgeon) daughter falls for a Mexican pianist (Jose Iturbi) old enough to be her grandfather.The U.S. Ambassador's (Walter Pidgeon) daughter falls for a Mexican pianist (Jose Iturbi) old enough to be her grandfather.The U.S. Ambassador's (Walter Pidgeon) daughter falls for a Mexican pianist (Jose Iturbi) old enough to be her grandfather.

Regie
- George Sidney
Drehbuch
- Isobel Lennart
- William Kozlenko
Hauptbesetzung

Siehe Produktionsinformationen bei IMDbPro

IMDb-BEWERTUNG

6,0/10

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IHRE BEWERTUNG

Regie
- George Sidney
Drehbuch
- Isobel Lennart
- William Kozlenko
Hauptbesetzung

Siehe Produktionsinformationen bei IMDbPro

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Contrary to rumor, a young Fidel Castro does not appear as an extra. The rumor grew from two sources: his yearbook, in which teachers noted that he was "somewhat of an actor," and a 1943 interview where Xavier Cugat cryptically referred to one of his dancers becoming "a South American general." In his 1948, Cugat references being an acquaintance of Huber Benitez, who later became a General and supporter of Fulgencio Batista, whom Castro overthrew in 1959.

Patzer
After her party, Christine and her father are talking in her room. There is a close-up of the drawing of her father. In later shots, it is a different picture. The face in the picture is at a different angle.

Zitate
Jeffrey Evans: Is Stanley pretty upset over your going?
Christine Evans: Yes.
Jeffrey Evans: Well, you've hurt him a lot lately - once more won't kill him.
Christine Evans: But I never meant to hurt his feelings.
Jeffrey Evans: You know, uh, if you hurt someone, it doesn't matter very much whether you meant to or not.

Alternative Versionen
"Why So Gloomy?", a musical number featuring Jane Powell and a Chinese boy, was cut from the film. It is included in the "Musical Jukebox" feature of the 2004 That's Entertainment! DVD box set.

Verbindungen
Edited into Moments in Music (1950)

Soundtracks
I Think of You
(uncredited)
Music based on "Piano Concerto No.2" by Sergei Rachmaninoff
Music Adaptation and Lyrics by Jack Elliott & Don Marcotte

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6/10

Trite plot is lifted by some nice vocalizing from Jane Powell...

HOLIDAY IN Mexico is filmed in bright and lush MGM Technicolor, but looks as though the filming never strayed far from the Culver City lot. It's the trite story of a teen-ager (JANE POWELL) with a crush on a much older man (JOSE ITURBI), and having frequent heart-to-heart talks with her sophisticated father (WALTER PIDGEON).

The first half of the film at least gets away from the trite plotting with a bunch of musical numbers that are attractively staged and presented in the way MGM always managed to do. Iturbi, ILONA MASSEY and others get a chance to shine. But the second half spends too much time straightening out the problems of RODDY McDOWALL and Jane, as they deal with the central problem--Jane's crush on Iturbi which has to be cured before the final reel.

It's a chore sitting through some of the syrupy scenes between Jane and Walter Pidgeon, but at least there's a good song for the finale--Schubert's "Ave Maria" which Powell sings beautifully. Didn't Deanna Durbin's IT'S A DATE wind up with the same Schubert song?

Pidgeon shows a good flair for comedy in some of his scenes, but none of the film seems to have an air of reality about it. You watch actors go through their paces and that's it.

It's strictly fluff for fans of Powell and Pidgeon, nothing more, saved by a few choice musical numbers, and the running time is too long.