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Sérénade à Mexico

Original title: Honeymoon
  • 1947
  • Tous publics
  • 1h 14m
IMDb RATING
5.8/10
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Shirley Temple, Guy Madison, Lina Romay, and Franchot Tone in Sérénade à Mexico (1947)
Comedy

A prospective bride and groom have misadventures in Mexico City.A prospective bride and groom have misadventures in Mexico City.A prospective bride and groom have misadventures in Mexico City.

  • Director
    • William Keighley
  • Writers
    • Michael Kanin
    • Vicki Baum
  • Stars
    • Shirley Temple
    • Franchot Tone
    • Guy Madison
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • IMDb RATING
    5.8/10
    520
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • William Keighley
    • Writers
      • Michael Kanin
      • Vicki Baum
    • Stars
      • Shirley Temple
      • Franchot Tone
      • Guy Madison
    • 14User reviews
    • 6Critic reviews
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    Shirley Temple
    Shirley Temple
    • Barbara Olmstead
    Franchot Tone
    Franchot Tone
    • David Flanner
    Guy Madison
    Guy Madison
    • Corporal Phil Vaughn
    Lina Romay
    Lina Romay
    • Raquel Mendoza
    Gene Lockhart
    Gene Lockhart
    • Consul Prescott
    Corinna Mura
    Corinna Mura
    • Senora Mendoza
    Grant Mitchell
    Grant Mitchell
    • Congressman Crenshaw
    Julio Villarreal
    Julio Villarreal
    • Senor Gaspar Mendoza
    Manuel Arvide
    • Registrar
    José Goula
    • Dr. Diego
    • (as Jose R. Goula)
    Vida Aldana
    • Bit Role
    • (uncredited)
    Larry Arnold
    • Doctor
    • (uncredited)
    Paulita Arvizu
    • Bit Role
    • (uncredited)
    Salvador Baguez
    • Boatman
    • (uncredited)
    Alma Beltran
    Alma Beltran
    • Nurse
    • (uncredited)
    Alfredo Berumen
    • Witness
    • (uncredited)
    Eumenio Blanco
    Eumenio Blanco
    • Mexican Witness
    • (uncredited)
    Robert Bray
    Robert Bray
    • Bridegroom
    • (uncredited)
    • Director
      • William Keighley
    • Writers
      • Michael Kanin
      • Vicki Baum
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    3wes-connors

    Shirley Temple Takes the Plunge

    Pretty teenager Shirley Temple (as Barbara Olmstead) arrives in Mexico City, where she is to marry handsome young Guy Madison (as Phil Vaughn). At the station, Ms. Temple reads a "Mexican Guide" which explains, "In Mexico almost everyone speaks Spanish," and advises her tipping is "not in vogue." After absorbing this helpful information, Temple learns Mr. Madison's flight has been delayed, from suave American consul Franchot Tone (as David Flanner). Madison arrives, and begins looking for Temple.

    Meanwhile, Temple has forgotten to eat. She faints from hunger, and is rescued by Mr. Tone. After he feeds her, Temple finds herself oddly attracted to the "old-fashioned" older Tone, calling him the "Walter Pidgeon type." Then, they jitterbug.

    The film continues to tease you about a sexual attraction between Temple and Tone. All along, you're fairly certain she will marry Madison. Confusion and misunderstanding between the threesome tries to make you laugh out loud. At best, the film filled theaters with a few tepid chuckles. The plot supposes Temple falls in love by landing on her man in a swimming pool. This is how she relates meeting Madison; the film's climax occurs when Temple, in a very modest two-piece, has a similar encounter with Tone.

    *** Honeymoon (5/17/47) William Keighley ~ Shirley Temple, Franchot Tone, Guy Madison, Lina Romay
    6SnoopyStyle

    adult Shirley Temple

    Barbara Olmstead (Shirley Temple) arrives in Mexico City hoping to marry her American GI boyfriend Phil (Guy Madison). He's late coming from the Panama Canal and there are the bureaucratic red tapes. US Embassy Vice Consul David Flanner (Franchot Tone) tries to help her, but that seems to elicit gossip. Nevertheless, he insists on accompanying her and she keeps mistaking every other GI for Phil.

    The movie should start with Barbara and Phil together. They really need the time to build more chemistry. They are stiff as a couple. The situation is funniest when the young couple keeps budding into David's life to get help. His frustration is mildly humorous. Maybe Barbara and Phil should be dumb and dumber. That would probably work best for a comedy.
    3planktonrules

    Not good...and quite forced.

    "Honeymoon" is a bad film. It's not terrible, but it is bad--mostly because the humor is very forced and the film seldom entertaining. More bluntly put, it tries way too hard to be kooky.

    The film begins with an annoying young lady (Shirley Temple) coming to Mexico to marry a serviceman. However, through a long series of unbelievable and annoying situations (mostly caused by her), instead of the marriage coming off successfully, the diplomat who tries to help her (Franchot Tone) ends up getting in very hot water with everyone--particularly his fiancée who THINKS he's making time with this other woman.

    The film is bad--mostly because the studio didn't seem to know what to do with Temple. While she possessed great talent, here they made her character really annoying and shrill--so much so that America's Sweetheart is now an annoying lady who seems to behave like a 14 year-old suffering through her first crush. She is supposed to be a woman...but rarely seems anything like one.
    9Maleejandra

    Diving on Top of a Gem

    Honeymoon is a sweet comedy starring two very capable actors. Shirley Temple is all grown up here, almost, as a seventeen year old who wants to wed her soldier boyfriend. The two plan to meet in Mexico City, but problems arise with arriving on time. They only have a short amount of time to marry so they want to make use of all the time they have as man and wife. However, absolutely everything happens to prevent that from happening. Temple enlists the help of a man from the American Consolate (Franchot Tone) to assist her, but she causes more problems for him than he could ever imagine.

    Temple is certainly different than the little girl everyone remembers her as. She does the same movements with her mouth, but she has matured into a very beautiful young woman. She has a knack for comedy so she excels in this film. Tone equals her. He is older than in his Joan Crawford days, but he has the same sweet face and strong acting talent. He seems to have gotten smarter over the years which enables him to be a dominant figure as well as a funny one.
    8MyMovieTVRomance

    Why can't love just be a clunk on the head?!

    Very cute movie! Movies that are this simple are very comforting. Life and people should be this simple, where a clunk on the head is all it takes to realize true love. There's something very blissful about the simplicity in that. Most people try to complicate everything, but these old movies were known for being comforting, because I guess they largely didn't try to complicate anything. Bread and butter kind of film.

    And while it does have a lot of wacky trouble throughout, it all culminates to a very beautiful speech given by the older man in the film, summarizing perfectly, how older people wish to get back to youth , and the youth wish to rush to maturity. It is a bittersweet monologue on how there really is no perfect point in time, except where we are at the moment. True perfection is to live blissfully in the moment.

    Wow, who would've thought such a simple kind of slapstick romcom could hold such a valuable life lesson?! As I've said before, there really is no such thing as a bad golden age of Hollywood movie. This is proof - being one of them that has been labeled with the BAD title- how good it actually is! If this is what constitutes a bad movie by old Hollywood standards, then what does that say about today's new movie standards?! Seriously!

    On another note, Shirley Temple is so beautiful in this film! Yes, there is beauty in every age, but looking at her perfect features, unmarred by the wrinkles of time, I admit it does make me wish that at least those of us of the fair sex could stay perpetually maiden like.

    Anyway, good film! Very good film.

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    • Trivia
      The same year this film bombed at the box office, Shirley Temple was also in one of the biggest hits of her "post child star years," co-starring with Cary Grant and Myrna Loy in The Bachelor and the Bobby-soxer, which grossed more than five times what Honeymoon did.
    • Goofs
      When Flanner is running after Barbara, he distinctly mispronounces her name in calling after her, saying "Miss Armstead" instead of Olmstead.
    • Quotes

      David Flanner: Intuition? That's a woman's infallable way of coming to wrong conclusions!

    • Soundtracks
      Ven Aqui
      Music by Leigh Harline

      Lyrics by Mort Greene

      Performed by Mário Santos, Shirley Temple and chorus (uncredited)

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    • Release date
      • March 16, 1949 (France)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Languages
      • English
      • Spanish
    • Also known as
      • Luna de miel en México
    • Filming locations
      • RKO Studios - 780 N. Gower Street, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA(Studio)
    • Production companies
      • RKO Radio Pictures
      • Vanguard Films
      • William Keighley Productions
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    • Runtime
      • 1h 14m(74 min)
    • Color
      • Black and White
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.37 : 1

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