In Caliente

Edward Everett Horton as New York showbiz mag publisher Brandon has been chasing Dolores Del Rio as dancer Rita around a Tijuana resort, because she’s his angle to get his partner (Pat O’Brien) to ditch his gold-digging fianceè back home, with much sexy posing and smiling, Lloyd Bacon directing, in In Caliente, 1935.

Zippy opening, screenplay by Jerry Wald and Julius Epstein, story Ralph Block and Warren Duff, Pat O’Brien and Edward Everett Horton as partners in a New York entertainment rag, chewing through staff (Florence Fair, James Donlan etc.) and evading probably treacherous Glenda Farrell as Clara, in In Caliente, 1935, starring Dolores Del Rio.

All of 70 minutes into the picture, Busby Berkeley staging, Lloyd Bacon directing, a reprise of an extended Harry Warren-Al Dubin composition, Dolores Del Rio as Rita finally sings and dances, with support from Phil Regan, love interest Pat O’Brien watching with pal Edward Everett Horton, in Warner Bros.’ In Caliente, 1935.

At a Mexican resort, a fast-talking magazine editor (Pat O'Brien) woos the dancer (Dolores del Rio) he's trashed in print in In Caliente (1935).