Fiesta

Fiesta

1941 "A GLOROUS SPECTACLE OF GAYETY, COLOR AND SONG! Fiesta means fun in any language! It;s full of girls! It's full of laughs! It's Tecnicolorful to look at! It's a hit parade to hear!"
Fiesta
Fiesta

Fiesta

4.8 | en | Comedy

Cholita, after a long absence in Mexico City, is returning home to take up her duties as head of the rancho and, as everyone expects, to marry her childhood sweetheart José. Expectations are somewhat dashed as she shows up with Fernando to whom she is engaged. This makes José and Cholita's uncle more than a little bit put out as Fernando is not only not a Mexican, he is also a city slicker afraid of the country.

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4.8 | en | Comedy , Western , Music | More Info
Released: November. 28,1941 | Released Producted By: Hal Roach Studios , Country: Budget: 0 Revenue: 0 Official Website:
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Cholita, after a long absence in Mexico City, is returning home to take up her duties as head of the rancho and, as everyone expects, to marry her childhood sweetheart José. Expectations are somewhat dashed as she shows up with Fernando to whom she is engaged. This makes José and Cholita's uncle more than a little bit put out as Fernando is not only not a Mexican, he is also a city slicker afraid of the country.

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Cast

Ann Ayars , Jorge Negrete , Armida

Director

Charles D. Hall

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MartinHafer In the late 30s and early 40s, the Hal Roach Studio switched from making comedy shorts to longer-length B-movies. Most were about an hour long, though I have no idea why "Fiesta" is only 45. Regardless, it's a strange Hollywood version of life in the Mexican countryside--one that is very sanitized and full of happy peasants and singing.When the film begins, the big boss-man of the town announces a fiesta because his daughter, Cholita (Ann Ayars) is returning. However, everyone is a bit surprised when she shows up with a fiancé-- especially since poor Jose thought she was his. Soon this fiancé proves to be a real drip so Jose decides to play a trick on him and pretends to be a bandit. Can he possibly win back Cholita or is the woman destined to be married to a haughty jerk?This is a musical with a rather thin plot. The opening number is very nice but I had no idea what they were singing about as it was in Spanish. The second number, however, was awful, as the woman singing lead had a voice high pitched enough to cause dogs to bark and glass to explode! Apart from this, the rest of the songs are okay and the film a mildly entertaining affair if you have very low standards and expectations. Kind of like silly fluff, really.
crumpta Ran across this little movie by accident...What caught my eye was the billing of "George Negrete"....I had to watch it to see if that turned out to be Jorge Negrete. It did, and being a huge fan of his singing...well, I had to watch it. He was a really big star in that era in Mexico....I have several of his movies, and as many of his albums I could find. It's a simple movie...minimal plot....very much like an American copy of the style of Mexican movies of that era. A lot of inaccurate mixing of music, dress and accents, but still an amusing comedy with some pretty decent music....and pretty short, so it never really gets boring.
bkoganbing Fiesta with a running time of only 43 minutes seems to fall in a never never land of film classification. Not long enough to be a feature film and too long for a short subject. It's strictly an academic question because I doubt this film would have qualified for any awards.It barely has a plot in it and what little it does concerns young Anne Ayars bringing home radio star George Givot for guardian/uncle Antonio Moreno's approval. Givot is certainly not the hero his publicity makes him out to be and Jorge Negrette spend what little time between songs and dances proving it so and winning Ayars.If you watch Fiesta you're not watching it for any story, but to enjoy the musical numbers. Latin American music was at the time making one of its periodic bursts of popularity at the time Fiesta was made and the film is an attempt to cash in on that as well.The numbers are nice, but you can hear and see the same thing watching Desi Arnaz do an occasional number on I Love Lucy.
Mart Sander This film probably would be of very, very little interest, were it not shot in colour. At least you can enjoy the magical reds and blues that have never been seen again since Technicolor process was replaced with cheaper and inferior ones. Amazingly enough, even as we are people from the 21st century, and are soon to celebrate Technicolor's one hundredth birthday (it began in 1917 with The Gulf Between, first two-strip Technicolor feature which has not survived), we still manage to be raptured by colour in these early films - especially if these only run for 45 minutes. The film features almost no plot, but at least a dozen songs - not bad ones - and the opportunity to see Anne Ayres, who a few years later became the leading lyrical soprano in the Metropolitain and returned to the screen only in 1951, when he was cast as Antonia in Tales of Hoffmann. Incidentally, she was the only woman in that film who actually lip-synced to her own voice. Her acting style is very sober and unassuming, so you might want to check out her other screen appearances.