Two pairs of lovers try to thwart an arranged marriage at Costa Rican fiesta time.Two pairs of lovers try to thwart an arranged marriage at Costa Rican fiesta time.Two pairs of lovers try to thwart an arranged marriage at Costa Rican fiesta time.
Vida Aldana
- Carnival Dancer
- (uncredited)
Anita Aros
- Carnival Dancer
- (uncredited)
Bonnie Bannon
- Girl
- (uncredited)
Rolando Barrera
- Carnival Dancer
- (uncredited)
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Did you know
- TriviaLucille Charles's debut.
- GoofsDuring Louisa's dream wedding sequence, her sister Maria disappears and then reappears from the background.
- ConnectionsReferenced in Nightmare Alley (1947)
- SoundtracksCOSTA RICA
Music by Ernesto Lecuona
Lyrics by Harry Ruby, Sunny Skylar, and Al Stillman
Sung by chorus, Dick Haymes, Celeste Holm
Featured review
Fiesta! South America! ... Anne Revere??
Mixture of the new Latin appreciation with the old Hollywood guard results in stilted musical from Fox. Vera-Ellen, who ricochets around the dance floor while never losing her smile, plays a young lass down South American way who changes her mind about an arranged marriage to Cesar Romero. She loves creepy, corn-fed Dick Haymes instead, while Cesar is currently squiring New York gal Celeste Holm around Costa Rica. The weirdest casting must be rigid-backed Anne Revere as Vera-Ellen's mother, who hovers over her daughter like a clucking goose yet doesn't even recognize her own child when she sees her on a parade float. The production is well-dressed--and blessedly gets outside of the studio on several occasions--but the music score seems built around one monotonously cheerful tune, and Romero comes off like a Latin Don Ameche: whipped and all wet. *1/2 from ****
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- moonspinner55
- May 21, 2009
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- Karneval i Costa Rica
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- Runtime1 hour 37 minutes
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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By what name was Carnival in Costa Rica (1947) officially released in Canada in English?
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