Yolanda and the Thief (1945)
Yolanda and the Thief (1945)


Plot.
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Cast & Crew.

Fred Astaire
Johnny Parkson Riggs

Lucille Bremer
Yolanda

Frank Morgan
Victor Budlow Trout

Mildred Natwick
Aunt Amarilla

Mary Nash
Duenna

Leon Ames
Mr. Candle

Ludwig Stössel
School Teacher (as Ludwig Stossel)

Jane Green
Mother Superior

Remo Bufano
Puppeteer

Francis Pierlot
Padre

Leon Belasco
Taxi Driver

Gigi Perreau
Gigi (as Ghislaine Perreau)

Charles La Torre
Police Lieutenant

Michael Visaroff
Major Domo

Vincente Minnelli
Director

Ludwig Bemelmans
Story / Screenplay

Irving Brecher
Screenplay

Arthur Freed
Producer

Lennie Hayton
Original Music Composer

Charles Rosher
Director of Photography

Jacques Théry
Story

Roger Edens
Associate Producer

George White
Editor

Jack Martin Smith
Art Direction

Cedric Gibbons
Art Direction

Edwin B. Willis
Set Decoration

Irene Sharaff
Costume Design

Jack Dawn
Makeup Artist

Irene
Costume Design

Gino Corrado

Franco Corsaro

Concha Ybarra
Media.


Details.
Release DateNovember 22, 1945
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 48m
Content RatingNR
Budget$2,443,322
Box Office$1,791,000
Genres
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This Movie Is About.
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Yolanda and the Thief is a 1945 American Technicolor MGM musical-comedy film set in a fictional Latin American country. It stars Fred Astaire, Lucille Bremer, Frank Morgan, and Mildred Natwick, with music by Harry Warren and lyrics by Arthur Freed. The film was directed by Vincente Minnelli and produced by Arthur Freed.
The film was a long-time pet project of Freed's to promote his lover Bremer's career, but fared disastrously at the box office. An attempt to create a whimsical fantasy, it ended up, in the words of critic John Mueller, as "egg-nog instead of the usual champagne". Despite admirable production values, it ruined Bremer's career and discouraged Astaire, who decided to retire after his next film, Blue Skies.
Perhaps it also vindicated Astaire's own horror of "inventing up to the arty"—his phrase for the approach of those who would set out to create art, whereas he believed artistic value could only emerge as an accidental and unpremeditated by-product of a tireless search for perfection. In his autobiography, Astaire approvingly quotes Los Angeles Times critic Edwin Schallert: "'Not for realists' is a label that may be appropriately affixed to Yolanda and the Thief. It is a question, too, whether this picture has the basic material to satisfy the general audience, although in texture and trimmings it might be termed an event." Astaire himself concluded, "This verified my feeling that doing fantasy on the screen is an extra risk."
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