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Moon Over Miami is a american film of genre Comedy directed by Walter Lang released in USA on 4 july 1941 with Don Ameche
Moon Over Miami (1941)
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Add to a movie listMoon Over Miami is a 1941 Technicolor musical film directed by Walter Lang, with Betty Grable and Don Ameche in leading roles and co-starring Robert Cummings, Carole Landis, Jack Haley, and Charlotte Greenwood. It was one of Haley's last appearances in a major, large-budgeted film; after 1943 he began making mostly B-pictures. The film's original songs were written by Leo Robin and Ralph Rainger.
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Sisters Kay and Barbara Latimer are working as carhops in a Texas drive-in restaurant with their aunt Susan, the cook, when they are notified that an expected inheritance of $55,000 is only $4,000 after taxes and fees. Determined to marry a millionaire, Kay talks Barbara and Susan into spending the money on a trip to Miami, where she hopes to hook a rich man at a resort.Actors
Don Ameche
(Phil O'Neil (Credits) / Phil 'Mac' McNeil)
Betty Grable
(Kathryn 'Kay' Latimer, also called Miss Adams)
Robert Cummings
(Jeffrey 'Jeff' Boulton II)
Carole Landis
(Barbara Latimer, aka Miss Sears)
Jack Haley
(Jack O'Hara)
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