On the Riviera

This article is about the film starring Danny Kaye. For the 1935 English language version of the same story, starring Maurice Chevalier and Merle Oberon, see Folies Bergère (film). For the 1941 remake starring Don Ameche, see That Night in Rio.
On the Riviera
1951 movie poster
Directed byWalter Lang
Written byscreenplay by
Valentine Davies
Henry Ephron
Phoebe Ephron
based on a play by
Hans Adler
Rudolph Lothar
Produced bySol C. Siegel
StarringDanny Kaye
Gene Tierney
Corinne Calvet
Marcel Dalio
Jean Murat
Henri Letondal
Clinton Sundberg
Sig Ruman
Joyce MacKenzie
Monique Chantal
Marina Koshetz
CinematographyLeon Shamroy
Edited byJ. Watson Webb Jr.
Music byAlfred Newman
Sylvia Fine
Distributed by20th Century Fox
Release date
  • April 20, 1951 (1951-04-20)
Running time
90 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Box office$2.5 million (US rentals)[1][2]

On the Riviera is a 1951 Technicolor musical comedy film made by 20th Century Fox. Directed by Walter Lang and produced by Sol C. Siegel from a screenplay by Valentine Davies and Phoebe and Henry Ephron, it is the studio's fourth[3] film based on the 1934 play The Red Cat by Rudolph Lothar and Hans Adler. This version stars Danny Kaye, Gene Tierney and Corinne Calvet, with Marcel Dalio, Henri Letondal and Sig Ruman.

The studio had signed Kaye for a one-picture deal, and revived the story as a vehicle for the multi-talented actor, who had a history of playing dual or multiple roles.[4]

On the Riviera was nominated for two Academy Awards: Scoring of a Musical Picture (by Alfred Newman) and Best Art Direction in Color (Art Directors Lyle R. Wheeler, Leland Fuller, Joseph C. Wright, and Set Decorators Thomas Little and Walter M. Scott).[5]

  1. ^ 'The Top Box Office Hits of 1951', Variety, January 2, 1952
  2. ^ Aubrey Solomon, Twentieth Century-Fox: A Corporate and Financial History Rowman & Littlefield, 2002 p 223
  3. ^ "On the Riviera". catalog.afi.com. Retrieved 2020-09-13.
  4. ^ Crowther, Bosley (1951-05-24). "THE SCREEN: FOUR FILMS HAVE PREMIERES HERE; Danny Kaye 'On the Riviera,' With Gene Tierney, Arrives at the Roxy Theatre". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-09-13.
  5. ^ "NY Times: On the Riviera". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. 2012. Archived from the original on 2012-10-18. Retrieved 2008-12-21.