Trivia and Quotes
Quotes
 Aunt Inez: Well, what are you? Some chicken thief or pick-purse?
Aunt Inez: [after Manuela pretends to be hypnotized again] Oh, Manuela, not again!
Macoco: The sound of my name was like thunder rolling in from the sea!
Manuela: Someday Macoco is going to swoop down upon me like a chicken hawk and carry me away.
Serafin: It`s hard to kill an actor.
Serafin: [after tricking his troupe and stealing their last cigar] I was er... keeping it lit for you.
Macoco: I`m very philanthropic now - I repaired the church belfry.
Manuela: How could I have been so gullible? Why I should have known from the first moment I saw you on the stage that you know nothing about acting!
Manuela: Why, it would mean the ruination of my complete life!
Serafin: Do not anger Macoco. Do not bring down Macoco`s wrath upon your head.
Serafin: I believe a condemned man has a right to one last request.
The Viceroy: Oh within reason - a visit from a loved one, a prayer, a beef steak.
Serafin: Manuela, you can`t marry that man. You`re not in love with him, you`re in love with me.
Manuela: The EGO! The CONCEIT!
Serafin: You should try underplaying sometime. Very effective.
Serafin: [after Manuela smashes a painting over his head] You`re overdoing this! You`re being vindictive!
Serafin: [standing by the noose] Usually for our opening I perform a rope trick, but tonight under the circumstances, I will skip the rope.
The Viceroy: I must say Macoco, you`re very satisfying! The other members of your profession whom I`ve met officially looked more like bookkeepers than pirates, but you - ooo hooo hooo - you fill the eye.
Serafin: Thank you.
Manuela: For the last time, I do not love you! I know you find it hard to believe, but I do not love you! Will you go away now?
Serafin: You know, it`s not essential to love me to be in the troop. It helps but it`s not essential.
Manuela: Go away!
Serafin: [leaves to go out window] Fine. Good bye!
Manuela: Not that way! You`ll kill yourself.
Serafin: You do care, Manuela!
Manuela: No I don`t!
Serafin: Yes you do! You love me! You love me!
Manuela: I wish you`d stop circling me. It`s like talking to a top!
Manuela: If I didn`t laugh I should be very annoyed.
Manuela: [while hypnotized] Underneath this prim exterior, there are depths of emotion, romantic longings... Underneath this prim exterior, there are depths of emotion, romantic longings...
Serafin: Boys, here is my last cigar. Divide it among you.
Serafin: Don`t tell me you`ve never longed for a prince instead of a pumpkin.
Serafin: I can tell you your past, your present and your future.
Manuela: You don`t have to tell me my future, I know my future.
Serafin: Am I in it?
Manuela: No!
Serafin: Then you don`t know your future.
Serafin: I know that underneath that prim exterior there are depths of emotion, romantic longings, unfulfilled dreams.
Serafin: Senorita, don`t marry that pumpkin.
Manuela: Pumpkin!
Serafin: Any man who lets you out of his sight is a pumpkin.
Serafin: You know, it isn`t essential for you to love me for you to join the troupe. It-it helps, but it isn`t essential.
Trivia
The original script by Anita Loos and Joseph Than included a role for Lena Horne as a Caribbean dressmaker, which was later cut. Miss Horne twice recorded Cole Porter`s sensual movie ballad for Judy Garland, "Love of My Life": initially waxed by Lena for a 1948 MGM Records single; then sung in a Porter medley on the best-selling RCA Victor LP from 1957, "Lena Horne at the Waldorf Astoria," which has been reissued on CD by the Collectables label.
Two songs written by Cole Porter for Judy Garland were revised in the release print. Judy`s first rendition of "Love of My Life," which included the verse, was not used. However, on the MGM Records soundtrack album, listeners heard Miss Garland`s initial prerecording. Also dropped from the movie was the original "Mack the Black," intended as the curtain-raiser. In the revamped version transferred to midway, replacing the feverish Garland-Gene Kelly "Voodoo" number, Cole Porter`s somewhat violent "Mack the Black" lyrics, including a reference to killing babies, were toned down. The three discarded prerecordings, along with the two final takes heard in the picture, are included on Rhino`s soundtrack CD.
At one time this movie was going to star Cary Grant and Greer Garson. When that project fell through it was turned into a musical.
Cole Porter was asked to write the songs for the movie, and he did on condition that he could change the name of the Pirate (who was named Estramundo in the play) to Macoco - the name of a friend of Porter`s whose nickname was Mack the Black.
Film debut of Lola Albright.
Gene Kelly helped invent a device which allowed the bulky Technicolor cameras to shoot from low angles.
Judy Garland missed 99 of the 135 shooting days due to illness.
The "Be a Clown" sequence was cut by exhibitors in Memphis and other U.S. cities in the South because it included The Nicholas Brothers, who were black.
The film was a major financial bust upon release, eventually losing $2 million for MGM.
The torrid romance enacted by Judy Garland and Gene Kelly in the song-and-dance number "Voodoo" so enraged MGM chief Louis B. Mayer that he demanded the negative be burned.
When one dance sequence was being rehearsed, Harold Nicholas was just going through the motions, and Gene Kelly accused him of not knowing the routine - so Nicholas danced the whole routine, alone, full-out and flawlessly. Kelly was speechless.
Gene Kelly fought to get The Nicholas Brothers (Fayard Nicholas and Harold Nicholas) included in the movie.
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Judy Garland
(as Manuela)
with Gene Kelly
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