Down Argentine Way
Starring: Betty Grable, Don Ameche, Carmen Miranda
Director: Irving Cummings
Writer: Darrell Ware, Karl Tunberg
Producer: Darryl F. Zanuck
Down Argentine Way is a 1940 American musical comedy-drama film made in Technicolor by Twentieth Century Fox. It stars Don Ameche, Betty Grable, and Carmen Miranda, with Charlotte Greenwood, J. Carrol Naish, Henry Stephenson, Katharine Aldridge, Leonid Kinskey, and Chris-Pin Martin.
Trivia
- Nominated for: Academy Award for Best Cinematography, Color; Academy Award for Best Art Direction, Color.
- The working title of this film was The South American Way.
- Down Argentine Way is considered the first of many Fox films made to implement an industry-wide approach to President Franklin D. Roosevelt's "Good Neighbor Policy" toward Latin America.
- During World War II, the U.S. government developed an administrative agency to encourage good relations with Latin America, as there was growing German influence there.
Filming Locations
- Since Miranda could not break her nightclub contract, her numbers for this film were shot in New York, while all other actors were working with director Irving Cummings in Los Angeles.
- The movie was filmed in Los Angeles and at nearby Greenfield Ranch in Thousand Oaks, California.
Previous Showings
5 Runs • 3 Festivals
2,448 tickets sold
Original Billings: 1 run (November 6, 1940)
Original Run: November 6, 1940 (Wednesday - Saturday)
All runs on record (5):
- November 6, 1940 (Wednesday - Saturday)Don Ameche, Betty Grable, Carmen Miranda
- January 12, 1997 · 553 ticketsw/ Double Indemnity, Scarlet Street
- May 12, 2001 · 373 ticketsMORE HOLLYWOOD MUSICALS 1940-1950w/ Yolanda and the Thief
- December 3 - 4, 2005 · 824 ticketsFall2005w/ National Velvet
- September 18 - 20, 2026 · 698 ticketsClassic Musicals from 20th Century-Foxw/ Moon Over Miami