The hilarious Carmen Miranda is really the star of this movie, even though she is relegated, as she was for most of her Hollywood career, to a clown role, or as Edward Everett Horton calls her, a "South American savage." Her talent and wit rise above the script, as she sings "Brazil" and "Paducah." With America in the midst of World War II, this patriotic crumpet was directed by Busby Berkeley and features his trademark choreography during "The Lady with the Tuti Fruti Hat" and "The Polka Dot Polka." Watch for the swing dancing as Benny Goodman sings "Minnie's in the Money," which makes TV's "Dancing with the Stars" pale in comparison, and Joan Greenwood's dance number is hilarious. Watch for the dancing Nicholas Brothers and Alice Faye singing the marginally memorable "A Journey to a Star." ---from Musicals on the Silver Screen, American Library Association, 2013
Review of The Gang's All Here
