It’s no secret that the Hollywood Comet loves musicals.
In 2010, I revealed I had seen 400 movie musicals over the course of eight years. Now that number is over 500. To celebrate and share this musical love, here is my weekly feature about musicals.

This week’s musical:
Rio Rita (1942) – Musical #532

Studio:
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Director:
S. Sylvan Simon

Starring:
Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Kathryn Grayson, John Carroll, Patricia Dane, Tom Conway, Barry Nelson, Peter Whitney, Arthur Space,
Themselves: Eros Volusia, Eros Volusia Brazilian Dancers

Plot:
Rita Winslow (Grayson) runs the Hotel Vista del Rio, which is located in Texas on the border of Mexico. She eagerly awaits for famous singer Ricardo Montera (Carroll) to arrive for his visit. Rita and Ricardo had a brief romance years before. To help manage the hotel, Rita hired Maurice Craindell (Conway), who is also a Nazi spy and using his work at the hotel as a cover. A bumbling pair Doc (Abbott) and Wishy (Costello) arrive at the hotel and unwittingly expose the Nazi spy ring.

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