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Down Argentine Way
1940 · Film · 89 min
Directed by Irving Cummings
The story—in which an American heiress on holiday in South America falls in love with an Argentine horse breeder against the wishes of their families—takes a backseat to the spectacular location shooting and parade of extravagant musical numbers, which include the larger-than-life Carmen Miranda singing the hit “South American Way” and a showstopping dance routine by the always amazing Nicholas Brothers.
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> But Fairbanks told the Los Angeles Record that he intended to show “the South Americans as we think of them rather than as they are.”
Reminds me of another movie, Down Argentine Way (1940), which literally opens with Carmen Miranda doing a stereotypical "South American" song and dance which angered Argentine audiences of the time so much that the movie got banned. From Wikipedia [1]:
> However, the film was banned in Argentina after being "hissed off the screens" by audiences there for misrepresenting the real culture of the country, wrongly including many Mexican and Caribbean mannerisms and costumes, as if they were part of the Argentine landscape.
Reading OP's article it seems the Argentine government around that time was all too keen on banning films though.
Nonetheless Down Argentine Way was selected for the US National Film Registry [2].
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Down_Argentine_Way [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Film_Registry