Love Letters to Old Hollywood

This is my second entry to this blogathon, dedicated to looking at Hollywood's favorite pastime: remakes. You can see the other entries here . ************************************ As I said yesterday -- okay, insisted -- I try not to hold grudges against remakes. Despite coming from the same source material, remakes can be vastly different from the original, such as the two films I talked about yesterday, the comedy masterpiece Libeled Lady and the fun musical Easy to Wed . Today's case is a little different because both movies are like Easy to Wed : colorful, lightweight, and very easy on the senses. That Night in Rio was 20th Century Fox's chance to team up three of its biggest stars: Alice Faye, Don Ameche, and Carmen Miranda. Ten years later for On the Riviera , Fox again saw the opportunity to cash in on big names: multitalented Danny Kaye and Fox royalty Gene Tierney. Interestingly enough, these movies are both remakes of Folies Bergère de Paris , a 1935 f...