Masquerade in Mexico

1945
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1h 36m

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Arturo de Córdova, Patric Knowles, and Dorothy Lamour in Masquerade in Mexico (1945)

An American singer stranded in Mexico is hired by a banker to distract a Mexican matador who is making a play for the banker's wife. They hatch a scheme whereby she pretends to be a Spanish ... Read allAn American singer stranded in Mexico is hired by a banker to distract a Mexican matador who is making a play for the banker's wife. They hatch a scheme whereby she pretends to be a Spanish countess.An American singer stranded in Mexico is hired by a banker to distract a Mexican matador who is making a play for the banker's wife. They hatch a scheme whereby she pretends to be a Spanish countess.

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Dorothy Lamour

Angel O'Reilly

Arturo de Córdova

Manolo Segovia

Patric Knowles

Thomas Grant

Ann Dvorak

Helen Grant

Jorge Rigaud

Boris Cassall
(as George Rigaud)

Natalie Schafer

Irene Denny

Mikhail Rasumny

Paolo

Billy Daniel

Rico Fenway

The Guadalajara Trio

Spanish Singing Trio

Jean Acker

Party Guest
(uncredited)

Enrique Acosta

Bullfight Spectator
(uncredited)

Grace Albertson

P.A.A. Passenger Service Attendant
(uncredited)

George Anderson

Customs Official
(uncredited)

Sam Appel

Man at Airport
(uncredited)

Gordon Arnold

Party Guest
(uncredited)

Paulita Arvizu

Bullfight Spectator
(uncredited)

Don Avalier

Headwaiter
(uncredited)

Albert Baldo

Bullfight Spectator
(uncredited)

Director
- Mitchell Leisen
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One of over 700 Paramount Productions, filmed between 1929 and 1949, which were sold to MCA/Universal in 1958 for television distribution, and have been owned and controlled by Universal ever since; its earliest documented telecast took place in Omaha Wednesday 6 May 1959 on KETV (Channel 7); it first aired in Seattle Thursday 12 November 1959 on KIRO (Channel 7).

Connections
Remake of Midnight (1939)

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Perfidia
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Written by Alberto Domínguez
English Lyrics by Milton Leeds
Performed by Dorothy Lamour

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Limp forties Paramount comedy looks like a schedule filling exercise.

The decline in the output of Mitchell Liesen who was once the sharpest director of the Paramount house style comedies at their peak - "Midnight," "Easy Living" "Take a Letter Darling" - overwhelms this mid forties effort in which the mangled remains of the script for "Midnight" can be glimpsed.

Fanciful theories have been advanced for the fall from grace of Preston Sturges who got the recognition that should have been spread over the whole Paramount dialogue comedy cycle, but the truth is that, by the end of WW2, Hollywood had lost the feel for these fluffy entertainments. The work of Sturges, Leisen, Elliot Nugent and (better) George Marshall all faltered and changed direction.

"Masquerade in Mexico" reveals Leisen as the heaviest casualty with a leaden comedy which could as easily have featured any of the contract talent and remained the same picture - Betty Hutton and Brian Donlevy? Lamour is glamorously got up but no one seems to have any confidence in her, playing plot dialogue over her songs and keeping the camera at a distance which shows off the decor and Edith Head costumes rather than performance.

Hard sledding this one.