The Time, the Place and the Girl
A nightclub near an opera singer's home faces closure from her manager. The club owners befriend her, but when she starts liking popular music, more troubles arise as they try to launch a Broadway show.
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"Pleasant musical, colorfully produced, but with more plot and talk than necessary for a musical. The plot's well worn—the guys and gals want to put on a musical in spite of a couple of killjoys (Bates & Woods). Seems the money needed for the show keeps getting passed around between good guys and not-so-good guys. Anyway, count on Morgan and Carson to get things right. The musical numbers are eye-catching, especially the rope-twirling "Calico", along with tap-dancing whirlwinds the Condo Brothers. I expect one reason for the talk is the large number of featured players, from ..."
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The big production number "A Rainy Night in Rio" was featured prominently in the Bugs Bunny short Long-Haired Hare (1949). In the short, Bugs Bunny disrupts a burly opera singer's rehearsal of The Barber of Seville by singing A Rainy Night in Rio loudly nearby. The opera singer - Giovanni Jones - overhears Bugs Bunny's rendition of the song and absent-mindedly sings along in operatic style. Jones loses his temper repeatedly and accosts Bugs Bunny violently, resulting in Bugs stating his famous and oft-quoted line: "Of course you know this means *war*!" The short proceeds with a sequence of humorous retaliations from Bugs Bunny at Jones' performance later that evening at the Hollywood Bowl.
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A nightclub near an opera singer's home faces closure from her manager. The club owners befriend her, but when she starts liking popular music, more troubles arise as they try to launch a Broadway show.