Week-End in Havana is a 1941

1941 in film

The year 1941 in film involved some significant events.-Events:Citizen Kane, consistently rated as one of the greatest films of all time, was released in 1941.-Top grossing films :-Academy Awards:...

 Fox

20th Century Fox

Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation — also known as 20th Century Fox, or simply 20th or Fox — is one of the six major American film studios...

 musical film

Musical film

The musical film is a film genre in which songs sung by the characters are interwoven into the narrative, sometimes accompanied by dancing. The songs usually advance the plot or develop the film's characters, though in some cases they serve merely as breaks in the storyline, often as elaborate...

 directed by Walter Lang

Walter Lang

Walter Lang was an American film director.-Early life:Walter Lang was born in Memphis, Tennessee. As a young man he went to New York City where he found clerical work at a film production company. The business piqued his artistic instincts and he began learning the various facets of filmmaking...

. The movie stars Alice Faye

Alice Faye

Alice Faye was an American actress and singer, called by The New York Times "one of the few movie stars to walk away from stardom at the peak of her career." She is remembered first for her stardom at 20th Century Fox and, later, as the radio comedy partner of her husband, bandleader and comedian...

 and Carmen Miranda

Carmen Miranda

Carmen Miranda, GCIH was a Portuguese-born Brazilian samba singer, Broadway actress and Hollywood film star popular in the 1940s and 1950s. She was, by some accounts, the highest-earning woman in the United States and noted for her signature fruit hat outfit she wore in the 1943 movie The Gang's...

. It was the second of three pictures the two stars made together and the second Faye film to have a Latin-American theme, typical for Fox musicals of the early 1940s. Faye was pregnant during filming.

Plot

Jay Williams is a ship company employee who is going to be sent to a riff in Florida. The ship he is traveling on, gets stuck. Every traveler is happy with the presence of Jay, except for the beautiful Nan Spencer. Nan thinks her vacation is being ruined. Jay takes her out for a good time and they soon fall in love.

Cast

• Alice Faye
  Alice Faye
  Alice Faye was an American actress and singer, called by The New York Times "one of the few movie stars to walk away from stardom at the peak of her career." She is remembered first for her stardom at 20th Century Fox and, later, as the radio comedy partner of her husband, bandleader and comedian...
  
   as Nan Spencer
• Carmen Miranda
  Carmen Miranda
  Carmen Miranda, GCIH was a Portuguese-born Brazilian samba singer, Broadway actress and Hollywood film star popular in the 1940s and 1950s. She was, by some accounts, the highest-earning woman in the United States and noted for her signature fruit hat outfit she wore in the 1943 movie The Gang's...
  
   as Rosita Rivas
• John Payne
  John Payne (actor)
  John Payne was an American film actor who is mainly remembered as a singer in 20th Century Fox musical films, and for his leading roles in Miracle on 34th Street and the NBC western television series The Restless Gun.-Background:Payne was born in Roanoke, Virginia...
  
   as Jay Williams
• Cesar Romero
  Cesar Romero
  Cesar Julio Romero, Jr. was an American film and television actor who was active in film, radio, and television for almost sixty years...
  
   as Monte Blanca
• Cobina Wright
  Cobina Wright
  Cobina Wright was an American opera singer and actress who appeared in The Razor's Edge . She gained later fame as a hostess and a syndicated gossip columnist...
  
   as Terry McCracken
• George Barbier
  George Barbier (actor)
  -Career:Barbier entered Crozier Seminary to study for ministry but gave it up to go on the stage, beginning in light opera. Spent several years in repertory and stock companies and eventually appeared on Broadway...
  
   as Walter McCracken
• Sheldon Leonard
  Sheldon Leonard
  Sheldon Leonard was a pioneering American film and television producer, director, writer, and actor.-Biography:...
  
   as Boris
• Leonid Kinskey
  Leonid Kinskey
  Leonid Kinskey was a Russian-born movie and television actor who enjoyed a long career. Kinskey is best known for his role as Sascha in the film Casablanca ....
  
   as Rafael, a bellhop
• Billy Gilbert
  Billy Gilbert
  Billy Gilbert was an American comedian and actor known for his comic sneeze routines. He appeared in over 200 feature films, short subjects and television shows starting in 1929. He is not to be confused with silent film actor Billy Gilbert Billy Gilbert (September 12, 1894 – September 23,...
  
  as Arbolado

Soundtrack

• A Week-End in Havana
  • Music by Harry Warren
  • Lyrics by Mack Gordon
  • Sung by Carmen Miranda in the opening number with chorus and band
  • Reprised by an offscreen chorus during the montage in Havana
  • Played as background music often
• Rebola a Bola (Embolada)
  • Music by Aloysio De Oliveira and Nestor Amaral
  • Lyrics by Francisco Eugenio Brant Horta
  • Sung in Portuguese by Carmen Miranda in a nightclub
• When I Love, I Love
  • Music by Harry Warren
  • Lyrics by Mack Gordon
  • Sung by Carmen Miranda at a nightclub
• Tropical Magic
  • Music by Harry Warren
  • Lyrics by Mack Gordon
  • Spanish lyrics by Ernesto Piedra
  • Sung in Spanish by an unidentified trio in a nightclub. Many historians agree that this trio consisted of Francisco Mayorga, Luis Santos, and Joseph Garcia. (The Guadalajara Trio.)
  • Reprised by Alice Faye
  • Reprised by Alice Faye and John Payne on a hay wagon
  • Reprised a cappella by Leonid Kinskey
  • Played as background music often
• Romance and Rhumba
  • Music by James V. Monaco
  • Lyrics by Mack Gordon
  • Sung by Alice Faye and Cesar Romero while dancing, the other dancers
• The Man with the Lollypop Song
  • Music by Harry Warren
  • Lyrics by Mack Gordon
  • Sung by lollipop vendor Nacho Galindo outside Arbolado's
• The Nango (Nyango)
  • Music by Harry Warren
  • Lyrics by Mack Gordon
  • Sung by Carmen Miranda at the nightclub
  • Sung and danced to by the chorus
  • Danced to by Alice Faye and John Payne
• The World Is Waiting to Waltz Again
  • Music by Harry Warren
  • Lyrics by Mack Gordon
  • (Cut from picture)