Masquerade in Mexico
1945 film by Mitchell Leisen
- December 3, 1945 (1945-12-03)
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Masquerade in Mexico is a 1945 American comedy film directed by Mitchell Leisen and starring Dorothy Lamour, Arturo de Córdova, Patric Knowles and Ann Dvorak.[1] It was produced and distributed by Paramount Pictures. It was part of a series of films set in Latin America produced by Hollywood in the 1940s in line with the Good Neighbor policy.[2]
Plot
Ill on the flight to Mexico City, honest banker Tom Grant doesn't know that Angel O'Reilly, seated nearby, has slipped a diamond into his pocket. She is traveling with the decidedly dishonest Boris Cassal, smuggling the gem for him, but slips away at the customs checkpoint while Tom is detained.Boris has taken the precaution of stealing her pocketbook, so Angel needs to rely on taxi driver Pablo's generosity. He even helps her land a job as a singer, lying to the club's owner that Angel is a countess from Spain.
She is performing one night while Tom is at a table with estranged wife Helen and her new bullfighter beau, Manolo. It becomes obvious that Manolo is taken with Angel when she joins them. Tom encourages this, not being comfortable with Helen's seeing another man.
Tom offers to bankroll Angel's pretense as a countess, paying for a luxurious hotel suite and wardrobe. Boris is on to the charade, so when Angel is accused of being a fraud, Boris comes to the rescue by pretending to be the contessa's count.
Manolo and Boris each wants Angel for himself, but she's finding Tom more and more to her liking. She persuades him that Boris was to blame for her stunt at the airport, and while the bullfighter gallantly steps aside, Boris satisfies his own desires by stealing Helen's necklace.
Cast
- Dorothy Lamour as Angel O'Reilly
- Arturo de Córdova as Manolo Sergovia
- Patric Knowles as Thomas Grant
- Ann Dvorak as Helen Grant
- George Rigaud as Boris Cassal
- Natalie Schafer as Irene Denny
- Mikhail Rasumny as Paolo
- Billy Daniel as Rico Fenway
- Martin Garralaga as Jose
- Frank Faylen as Brooklyn
- Juan Torena as Master of Ceremonies
- William Newell as FBI Agent
- James Flavin as FBI Agent
- Robert Middlemass as Customs Official
- Mae Busch as Party Guest
- Miriam Nelson as Party Guest
- Julia Faye as Party Guest
References
Bibliography
- Rice, Christina. Ann Dvorak: Hollywood's Forgotten Rebel. University Press of Kentucky, 2013.
- Welky, David. The Moguls and the Dictators: Hollywood and the Coming of World War II. JHU Press, 2008.
External links
- Masquerade in Mexico at IMDb
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Films directed by Mitchell Leisen
- Cradle Song (1933)
- Death Takes a Holiday (1934)
- Murder at the Vanities (1934)
- Behold My Wife! (1934)
- Four Hours to Kill! (1935)
- Hands Across the Table (1935)
- 13 Hours by Air (1936)
- The Big Broadcast of 1937 (1936)
- Swing High, Swing Low (1937)
- Easy Living (1937)
- The Big Broadcast of 1938 (1938)
- Artists and Models Abroad (1938)
- Midnight (1939)
- Remember the Night (1940)
- Arise, My Love (1940)
- I Wanted Wings (1941)
- Hold Back the Dawn (1941)
- The Lady Is Willing (1942)
- Take a Letter, Darling (1942)
- No Time for Love (1943)
- Lady in the Dark (1944)
- Frenchman's Creek (1944)
- Practically Yours (1944)
- Kitty (1945)
- Masquerade in Mexico (1945)
- To Each His Own (1946)
- Suddenly, It's Spring (1947)
- Golden Earrings (1947)
- Dream Girl (1948)
- Bride of Vengeance (1949)
- Song of Surrender (1949)
- No Man of Her Own (1950)
- Captain Carey, U.S.A. (1950)
- The Mating Season (1951)
- Darling, How Could You! (1951)
- Young Man with Ideas (1952)
- Tonight We Sing (1953)
- Bedevilled (1955)
- The Girl Most Likely (1958)
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