"Moon Over Miami" is a reworking of "Three Blind Mice" and years later the plot was reworked significantly as "How To Marry a Millionaire" (also starring Betty Grable). The significant difference between "Three Blind Mice" and "Moon Over Miami" is that the latter film has singing and is shot in Technicolor (and is quite lovely because of this).
A family is expecting a large inheritance. When it turns out to be not so large, one of them (Betty Grable) convinces her aunt (Charlotte Greenwood) and sister (Carole Landis) to invest their small windfall in a trip to Miami to hook a rich husband. The plan is to check into a swank resort and have her sister and aunt pose as her secretary and maid respectively. Soon, two guys (Bob Cummings and Don Ameche) are VERY interested in her...VERY. But which to pick? She likes them both and both appear to be loaded.
Despite being very familiar, this film is still enjoyable--perhaps a bit more than the original. But be forewarned--it's pure escapist fun and you can't think too much about the plot or else you'll really dislike Grable and her family (after all, they are liars and fortune-hunters). Well acted and slickly made.
By the way, the Florida locations are a bit of Hollywood escapism. While the film is supposed to be in Miami (and a few exterior shots are of Miami), a lot of the film was filmed at Cypress Gardens (now Legoland--and 3 1/2 hours away) and around Ocala (4 hours away). Back in the day, such trips would have taken MUCH longer in the age before superhighways.
A family is expecting a large inheritance. When it turns out to be not so large, one of them (Betty Grable) convinces her aunt (Charlotte Greenwood) and sister (Carole Landis) to invest their small windfall in a trip to Miami to hook a rich husband. The plan is to check into a swank resort and have her sister and aunt pose as her secretary and maid respectively. Soon, two guys (Bob Cummings and Don Ameche) are VERY interested in her...VERY. But which to pick? She likes them both and both appear to be loaded.
Despite being very familiar, this film is still enjoyable--perhaps a bit more than the original. But be forewarned--it's pure escapist fun and you can't think too much about the plot or else you'll really dislike Grable and her family (after all, they are liars and fortune-hunters). Well acted and slickly made.
By the way, the Florida locations are a bit of Hollywood escapism. While the film is supposed to be in Miami (and a few exterior shots are of Miami), a lot of the film was filmed at Cypress Gardens (now Legoland--and 3 1/2 hours away) and around Ocala (4 hours away). Back in the day, such trips would have taken MUCH longer in the age before superhighways.