Product Details

• Actors: Ann Sothern, Jane Powell, Barry Sullivan, Carmen Miranda, Louis Calhern
• Directors: Robert Z. Leonard
• Writers: Frederick Kohner, Jane Hall, Ralph Block, Sidney Sheldon
• Producers: Joe Pasternak
• Format: Color, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
• VHS Release Date: February 24, 1995
• Run Time: 100 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6302265827
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #176,798 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

20 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars MUSICAL MAGIC, December 7, 2000

By 

Karl Hess (Sandy, Utah United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Nancy Goes to Rio [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This glittering musical is highlighted by dynamic performances. The Barklays are a three-generation musical theatre family--grandpa (Louis Calhern), his daughter (Ann Southern) and his granddaughter, Nancy.(Jane Powell)

After closing her current musical hit, Ann Southern decides to travel to Rio with grandpa to study for her new play set in Brazil. Nancy remains behind to fulfill committments in summer theatre activities. Ann's producer has promised to see Nancy in her summer stock production and he is so pleased with her performance that he decides to use her in the part he had planned for her mother. Thrilled and dazed, Nancy decides to take a cruise to Rio to join her mother, unaware that she was offered the part first.

Matters are further complicated on the cruise when Carmen Miranda mistakes Nancy for being in a family way and she asks her boss, Barry Sullivan, to take Nancy under his wing. Nancy mistakes his attention as romantic and falls head over heals for him--a fate shared later by her mother when they arrive in Rio. Riotous un-doings add to the delight of the film as mother and daughter vie for the same part and the same man.

The musical numbers are dazzling. Ann Southern leads out with the beautiful TIME AND TIME AGAIN. The Barklays join forces for a heartwarming SHINE ON HARVEST MOON. Miss Miranda gives us a rousing YIPSEE-I-O and CA-ROOM! PA-PA. Jane Powell sparkles in some of her finest screen work in MAGIC IS THE MOONLIGHT, the lovely MUSETTA'S WALTZ and the sensational finale LOVE IS LIKE THIS.

Highly recommended for an evening of fun and really good music.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Enjoyable, but Plot is Definitely Iffy, July 5, 2003

By 

James A. White (Cookeville, TN United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Nancy Goes to Rio [VHS] (VHS Tape)

The basic plot centers around the daughter (Jane Powell) going to Rio for a job and her mother, Ann Southern (who looks and behaves more like her sister), trying to thwart a "masher" whom she thinks is after her daughter. Carmen Miranda provies some wonderful scenes in her second of only two MGM movies. Watch for the umbrella number! It's simple over-the-top lavishness and downright craziness is what made her the highest-paid female star of the 40's! Basically, the movie is enjoyable, but the plot (and the scenery--the backdrop of Rio from the hotel room is hilarious to look at) are rather contrived, even for a musical.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars a great and colorful film!, October 8, 2002

By 

Rosella Ann Myles - See all my reviews

This review is from: Nancy Goes to Rio [VHS] (VHS Tape)

The costumes and scenery are so brilliant and colorful in this film. It's a very entertaining musical. Jane Powell and Anne Southern are cast perfectly as mother daughter in it. It's feast for the eys to see.