COPACABANA

Copacabana
United Artists, 1947, B/W, 91 minutes,
Released July 1947

Groucho Marx's first film without his brothers was this wild musical-comedy about a booking agent who gets his top (and only) client two singing jobs at the same nightclub. Carmen Miranda plays her familiar Latin role and doubles as a French chanteuse. With Andy Russell, Gloria Jean. Songs include "Tico, Tico."

Fun story, good acting, but with all this talent, it should have been much better. But Carmen and Groucho make a fun pair!

Producer and Writer of Lyrics & Music: Sam Coslow
Associate Producer: Walter Batchelor
Directed by: Alfred E. Green
Assistant Director: Harold Godsoe
By Permission and Cooperation of Monte Proser's Copacabana, a United Artists release
Screenplay: Laslo Vadnay, Allen Boretz and Howard Harris
Additional Dialogue by: Sydney R. Zelinka
Original story by Laslo Vadnay
Musical Director and Incidental Music by: Edward Ward
Musical Arrangements by: Jack Mason, Harold Zweifel, Bob Gordon
Musical Advisor: Eddie Durant
"Go West, Young Man" by Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby
Musical Numbers Staged by: Larry Ceballos
Production Designer: Duncan Cramer
Set Decorations: Julia Heron
Costume Designer: Barjansky
Make-Up Supervision: Bob Stephanoff
Hair Stylist: Marie Clark
Sound: Fred Lau
Director of Photography: Bert Glennon
Special Photographic Effects: John Fulton
Film Editor: Philip Cahn

Cast: Groucho Marx [Lionel Devereaux], Carmen Miranda [Carmen Novarro], Steve Cochran [Steve Hunt], Andy Russell [Himself, Singer], Gloria Jean [Anne], Abel Green [Himself - Editor of Variety], Louie Sobol [Himself - Columnist], Earl Wilson [Himself - Columnist], De Castro Sisters [Themselves], Raul & Eva Reyes [Dance Specialty], Ralph Sanford [Liggeti - Agent], Igor Dega [unknown role], Kay Gorcey [Cigarette Girl], Merle McHugh [bit], Dee Turnell [Dancer], Maxine Fife [Announcer], Toni Kelly [Wilson's Showgirl], Chili Williams [Sobel's Showgirl], Abigail Adams [bit], Jill Meredith [Specialty], Copa Girls [Themselves], Additional Cast: Chester Clute [Mr. Boothe - Hotel Clerk], Dick Elliott [Mr. Green - Hotel Manager], Edgar Dearing [Police Detective], Crane Twins [Specialty], William H. O'Brien [Waiter], Lee Phelps [Cop], Dick Rush [Cop], Dewey Robinson [Bouncer], Andrew Tombes [Anatole Murphy, Movie Producer], Paul Newlan [Seal Man], Armand "Curly" Wright [Monkey Man]

Musical Program: [0:00] Overture (played by Orchestra behind titles); [0:01] We've Come to Copa (performed by the Copa Girls); [0:16] Tico Tico (sung by Carmen Miranda); [0:21] Je Vous Aime (performed by Carmen Miranda); [0:25] My Heart Was Doing a Bolero (sung by Andy Russell, danced by Raul & Eva Reyes and the Copa Girls - beautiful set!); [0:33] I Haven't Got a Thing to Sell (introduced by the Crane Twins, sung by Carmen Miranda and Andy Russell); [0:38] If You Want to Make a Hit with Fifi (sung by Carmen Miranda); [0:49] Stranger Things Have Happened (sung by Andy Russell); [0:55] Stranger Things Have Happened (sung by Gloria Jean); [1:07] Go West, Young Man (performed by Groucho Marx and the Copa Girls); [1:17] Je Vous Aime (sung by Andy Russell); [1:28] Finale: Let's Do the Copacabana (performed by Carmen Miranda, The DeMarco Sisters, Raul & Eva Reyes, Groucho Marx, and the Copa Girls)