Affair in Trinidad Overview:

Affair in Trinidad (1952) was a Drama - Film Noir Film directed by Vincent Sherman and produced by Rita Hayworth, Vincent Sherman and Virginia Van Upp.

SYNOPSIS

The Gilda pairing of Hayworth and Ford reunite for a steamy tropical tale. When a sexy cafe dancer's husband is murdered by an international spy, the local police ask her to snoop into the spy's affairs. But temperatures really rise when her brother-in-law arrives and they are drawn into the mystery and to each other.

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Academy Awards 1952 --- Ceremony Number 25 (source: AMPAS)

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Best Costume DesignJean LouisNominated
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Affair in Trinidad (1952)

By Beatrice on Oct 1, 2015 From Flickers in Time

Affair in Trinidad Directed by Vincent Sherman Written by Oscar Saul and James Dunn; story by Virginia Van Upp and Berne Giler 1952/USA Columbia Pictures Corporation/The Beckworth Corporation First viewing/Netflix rental The story, a mash-up of Gilda and Notorious, falls rather flat. ?Not so Rita... Read full article


Affair in Trinidad (1952)

By Angela on Jul 9, 2012 From Hollywood Revue

For three years, Chris Emery (Rita Hayworth) has been living in Trinidad with her husband Neal.? He’s an artist, she’s a nightclub singer and dancer.? After one of her performances, she comes off stage to find Inspector Smythe (Torin Thatcher) waiting to break the news that her husband i... Read full article


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Quotes from Affair in Trinidad

Trinidad Band: [singing] A chick-a-chick boom, a chick-a-chick boom / Announces your in the room with the Trinidad Lady. / A chick-a-chick boom, a chick-a-chick boom / Your ticker goes boom-boom-boom for the Trinidad Lady.
Chris Emery: [singing] It's only that I do what I love and love what I do / Can't help the mad desire that's deep inside of you. / You realize the fault isn't mine, you are to blame / You want what you can't have, and you're just the same.


Chris Emery: Would you like to come in?
Max Fabian: Everything thrives in the tropics, including gossip. It might be better if I didn't.


Max Fabian: At the risk of dislocating your personality, try to remain calm.


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Facts about Affair in Trinidad

Hayworth practiced hard to try and do her own singing, but finally Morris Stoloff hired Jo Ann Greer to dub Rita's voice. Greer and Hayworth worked well together and she later dubbed Rita in "Miss Sadie Thompson" and "Pal Joey".
First full length feature of Alexander Scourby.
The song "Rum and Coca Cola" by The Andrews Sisters was originally a calypso song composed and performed by a Trinidad calypso band in the mid-1940s. At that time the American military maintained two bases in Trinidad. The song is about the soldiers from these bases and how a mother and daughter provided "pleasure" for the "Yankee dollar". Actually, if one walked around Port of Spain - Trinidad's capital city - during this period it was a common sight to see American soldiers and sailors with local women at hotels and bars.
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