Yolanda and the Thief (1945)
Yolanda and the Thief (1945)
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Plot.
Where to Watch.
This Movie Is About.
Cast & Crew.
![Fred Astaire](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/24201-fred-astaire.webp)
Fred Astaire
Johnny Parkson Riggs
![Lucille Bremer](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/24254-lucille-bremer.webp)
Lucille Bremer
Yolanda
![Frank Morgan](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/22740-frank-morgan.webp)
Frank Morgan
Victor Budlow Trout
![Mildred Natwick](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/46554-mildred-natwick.webp)
Mildred Natwick
Aunt Amarilla
![Mary Nash](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/25197-mary-nash.webp)
Mary Nash
Duenna
![Leon Ames](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/4578-leon-ames.webp)
Leon Ames
Mr. Candle
![Ludwig Stössel](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/9034-ludwig-stossel.webp)
Ludwig Stössel
School Teacher (as Ludwig Stossel)
![Jane Green](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/205796-jane-green.webp)
Jane Green
Mother Superior
![Remo Bufano](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
Remo Bufano
Puppeteer
![Francis Pierlot](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/233817-francis-pierlot.webp)
Francis Pierlot
Padre
![Leon Belasco](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/11427-leon-belasco.webp)
Leon Belasco
Taxi Driver
![Gigi Perreau](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/61458-gigi-perreau.webp)
Gigi Perreau
Gigi (as Ghislaine Perreau)
![Charles La Torre](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
Charles La Torre
Police Lieutenant
![Michael Visaroff](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/191199-michael-visaroff.webp)
Michael Visaroff
Major Domo
![Vincente Minnelli](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/44169-vincente-minnelli.webp)
Vincente Minnelli
Director
![Ludwig Bemelmans](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
Ludwig Bemelmans
Story / Screenplay
![Irving Brecher](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
Irving Brecher
Screenplay
![Arthur Freed](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/24342-arthur-freed.webp)
Arthur Freed
Producer
![Lennie Hayton](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/1116516-lennie-hayton.webp)
Lennie Hayton
Original Music Composer
![Charles Rosher](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/1127648-charles-rosher.webp)
Charles Rosher
Director of Photography
![Jacques Théry](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
Jacques Théry
Story
![Roger Edens](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
Roger Edens
Associate Producer
![George White](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
George White
Editor
![Jack Martin Smith](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
Jack Martin Smith
Art Direction
Media.
![Yolanda and the Thief](https://images.moviefit.me/t/c/b/20135-yolanda-and-the-thief.webp)
![Yolanda and the Thief](https://images.moviefit.me/t/c/b/1/20135-yolanda-and-the-thief.webp)
Details.
Release DateNovember 22, 1945
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 48m
Content RatingNR
Budget$2,443,322
Box Office$1,791,000
Genres
Last updated:
Wiki.
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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