Havana Rose (1951) DVD-R

Starring Estelita Rodriguez, Bill Williams, Hugh Herbert,
Florence Bates and Fortunio Bonaova
Directed by William Beaudine

Print: black/white
Runtime: 77 min.
Genre: Comedy
Print Quality: B

Ambassador Rico DeMarco is in Washington trying to raise a five-million dollar loan for his hard-pressed country, Lower Salamia. Filbert Filmore and his domineering wife are about to sign on the dotted line for the loan when DeMarco's vivacious daughter, Estelita, upsets the deal by accidentally knocking hot coffee over the papers---and Mrs. Fillmore, who leaves the house in a huff. The Washinton-resident spies of Lower Salamia's insurrectionist faction gleefully cable their leader that the loan attempt has failed and Viva la Revolution. Estelita, in her role as an amateur international financier, discovers that Fillmore is a great believer in astrology and, disguised as a gypsy fortune teller, she dupes him into believing that the stars are propitious for his making the loan, but Mrs. Fillmore's wild jealousy, when she discovers her woo-woo husband alone with the attractive young gypsy.