The Toast of New Orleans

The fisherman of Louisiana is an American feature film from the year 1950.

Action

In a small village in Louisiana every year a great feast for the fishermen of the village takes place. This year, come as guests of honor, the opera diva Suzette Micheline and opera director Jacques Riboudeaux. Suzette meets here the handsome Pepe Duvalle. Pepe is the nephew of the fisherman Nicky Duvalle. As Pepe in Suzette's gala performance, she interrupts, Suzette is very annoying. Pepe makes her solo performance, a duet which, in turn, the opera director Jacques very impressed. He is thrilled with the voice of the tenor and invites him to the opera to New Orleans one. However, Pepe is initially not interested. Only when in a storm the ship Pepes Uncle Nicky is totally destroyed, he decides to accept the offer. With the hope to earn the money for a new boat, he travels with his uncle in New Orleans.

Opera director Jacques would now prepare Pepe on his career as an opera star. Suzette is to make the uncouth country boy softer. Oscar will teach him socially acceptable behavior. Finally, he puts Pepe in front of the conductor Maestro Trellini who is enthusiastic about Pepe's voice and offered him further train. Pepe learns quickly and falls in love with Suzette. However, Suzette afraid to enter into a relationship with Pepe, as they would then have to be solved by Jacques and this would probably hurt their own careers. They therefore asks Jacques to marry her. Pepe will then leave New Orleans again.

Uncle Nicky has also become very bored of New Orleans and want to go back to his fishing village. As Pepe's friends Tina and Pierre come to New Orleans, they must realize that Pepe is no longer the cheerful boy from before, but has become cold and urban. Jacques has now also recognized that Suzette does not love him, but Pepe. Suzette, however, had fallen in love with the fisherman Pepe and now can not do with the trained by her new Pepe much. As Pepe's friends Tina and Pierre New Orleans leave again, even Pepe recognizes his personality change. In a performance of Madame Butterfly, he is then as natural as Suzette once and fell in love anew in him.

Reviews

" Swinging musical entertainment with the then-popular singer Mario Lanza; dowdy in the plot, but routinely staged. "

Awards

The composer Nicholas Brodszky and songwriter Sammy Cahn was nominated for the song Be My Love in 1951 for an Oscar.

1950 in film Norman Taurog Screenplay Sy Gomberg George Wells (screenwriter) Joe Pasternak Film score Georgie Stoll James Mitchell (actor) Madama Butterfly
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