The New Pictures, Apr. 14, 1947

Carnival in Costa Rica (20th Century-Fox), a happy brawl of tone and color, shows off a few of the complications that may develop when parents arrange marriages for their children and the children arrange their romances otherwise.

Vera-Ellen, daughter of American-born Anne Revere and Costa Rican Coffee Planter J. Carrol Naish, is slated to marry 100% Costa Rican Cesar Romero. But Romero wants to marry American Comedienne Celeste Holm, and Vera-Ellen falls for Romero's American friend, Dick Haymes. All of this becomes involved enough to last for nearly two fiesta-flurried hours because...

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