copacabana

August 24 movie: Copacabana. This was exactly what I wanted. A silly, funny musical starring Groucho Marx and Carmen Miranda. She's a singer, he's her agent, they're broke and trying to break into the business. Groucho gets her not one but two contracts at the Copacabana, as herself and as a French chanteuse named "Mademoiselle Fifi" who wears a veil. Most of the movie follows them trying to juggle the two acts (and Carmen trying to fight off admirers) without anyone finding out about the deception. Andy Russell costars as another singer at the Copacabana. Coincidentally, I just found out last week during the Latin a la Lounge show that he was Mexican American, born in California to Mexican parents. His biggest song, "Amor," was partly in Spanish.