Down Argentine Way

Cummings had greater success with Down Argentine Way (1940), the splashy Technicolor musical that made Betty Grable a star and featured the American film debut of Carmen Miranda. That Night in Rio (1941) repeated the formula with less success; Ameche and Miranda (who sang “Chica Chica Boom Chic”) were joined…

…her first blockbuster success with Down Argentine Way. That film was followed by such hits as Moon over Miami (1941), Sweet Rosie O’Grady (1943), Pin Up Girl (1944), and The Dolly Sisters (1946)—the success of which helped pull Fox out of debt.

…her American film debut in Down Argentine Way (1940). Typecast as the “Brazilian Bombshell” and given such caricatural roles as “The Lady in the Tutti-Frutti Hat” in Busby Berkeley’s The Gang’s All Here (1943), she became the highest-paid female performer in the United States during World War II. Her final…