in French, which Larry can't understand. After the party, the Baron discovers that Cecilia was flirting with Larry for the evening and tries to play the joke on her. She, however, inadvertently turns the tables on him. To get back at his wife, the next morning, the Baron calls and tells Cecilia that his plane has just landed. Cecilia fears that she has been unfaithful to Manuel but Larry later tells her the truth. At the office, Machado gives the Baron a payment of $32 million for his airline, the topic of his conversation with Larry. The Baron heads home but Cecilia tries one more time to get back at him by pretending to make violent love (in the old-fashioned sense) to Larry. It turns out to be the Baron and all is soon resolved in the end. Cast Don Ameche as Larry Martin / Baron Manuel Duarte Alice Faye as Baroness Cecilia Duarte Carmen Miranda as Carmen, Larry's girlfriend S. Z. Sakall as Arthur Penna J. Carrol Naish as Machado, Manuel Duarte's business rival Curt Bois as Felicio Salles Leonid Kinskey as Monsieur Pierre Dufond Frank Puglia as Pedro, Manuel's valet Lillian Porter as Luiza, Cecilia's maid Maria Montez as Inez Georges Renavent as Ambassador Eddie Conrad as Alfonso Fortunio Bonanova as Pereira Production The film was a follow-up to the successful Down Argentine Way and involved many of the same people. The movie's working titles were "A Latin from Manhattan", "Rings on Her Fingers", "They Met in Rio" and "The Road to Rio". According to The Hollywood Reporter of November 15, 1940, Paramount objected to the proposed title The Road to Rio because it created confusion with that studio's Road to Zanzibar starring Bing Crosby and Bob Hope. That Night in Rio marked the sixth and final teaming of Don Ameche and Alice Faye, one of Fox's most popular teams. Faye and Ameche recorded and filmed the song "Chica Chica Boom Chic" as a dance number, but only the sequence of Miranda and Ameche singing the song is in the released picture. Irving Cummings directed the screenplay by George Seaton, Bess Meredyth and Hal Long. According to a letter from studio head Darryl F. Zanuck, the script for That Night in Rio had been submitted to the Brazilian Ambassador in Washington, D.C., who approved it and described it as "the kind of picture that will be helpful to