 | Flying Down to Rio
Buy new: $17.99 / Used from: $2.81 Glamorous and exotic Dolores del Rio is the top-billed star in this Panamerican musical best known for introducing the dancing partnership of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers doing "The Carioca".
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 | Bird of Paradise
Buy new: $7.98 / Used from: $11.99 Mexican beauty Dolores del Rio gets to show off some skin opposite Joel Mc Crea in this very non-PC South Seas romance.
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 | Mata Hari
Buy new: $17.99 / Used from: $13.01 The best "talkie" by 1920s Latin Lover Ramon Novarro, but only because he stars opposite Greta Garbo.
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 | Lost Horizon
Buy new: $14.49 / Used from: $8.48 In this Frank Capra classic, Mexican dancer Margo plays a supporting role as one of the citizens of the utopian Shangri-La.
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 | Only Angels Have Wings
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $3.91 Rita Hayworth's first important role was as Cary Grant's former lover in this great Howard Hawks film set in a fictional banana republic. Also starring the great Jean Arthur.
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 | Bataan
Buy new: $17.99 / Used from: $5.00 Cuban Desi Arnaz plays the token Latino member of a WWII combat unit in this MGM war film.
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 | Down Argentine Way
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $6.03 "Brazilian Bombshell" Carmen Miranda made her film debut as a nightclub act singing "The South American Way" in this musical travelogue that also turned Betty Grable into a star.
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 | That Night in Rio (Fox Marquee Musicals)
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $4.91 Carmen Miranda's first real role is as a Brazilian nightclub entertainer who does the "Chica Chica Boom Chic" and romances Don Ameche (in dual role). Reigning Fox blonde Alice Faye heads the cast.
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 | Week-End in Havana
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $6.87 The best of Twentieth-Century Fox's Latin American musical travelogues, with Alice Faye and Carmen Miranda at their Technicolor best. Pure escapism.
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 | The Gang's All Here
Buy new: $17.99 / Used from: $6.39 A World War II Technicolor musical extravaganza by Busby Berkeley that became a camp classic in the 1970s and immortalized Carmen Miranda as "The Lady in the Tutti-Frutti Hat".
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 | The Ox-Bow Incident
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $4.39 This dark western is one of the few truly great films that Mexican Anthony Quinn did in Hollywood. Also one of Henry Fonda's best films.
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 | Back to Bataan
Buy used from: $2.66 Another good war film with Anthony Quinn. This time he plays the grandson of a Filipino leader. Starring John Wayne.
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 | Guadalcanal Diary
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $6.19 Another good early film with Anthony Quinn. He plays the token Mexican soldier.
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 | You Were Never Lovelier
Buy new: $12.99 / Used from: $4.39 Based on an Argentine film, this is one of two B& W musicals (the other being "You'll Never Get Rich," also available on DVD) co-starring Rita Hayworth and Fred Astaire.
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 | Cover Girl
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $11.99 This time, Rita Hayworth gets to dance with Gene Kelly and she does so in color.
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 | Birth Of The Blues/Blue Skies - Double Feature
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $6.87 A routine Bing Crosby musical with "Puerto Rican Pepperpot" (and future Mrs. Edmond O'Brien) Olga San Juan in a supporting role. She performs Irving Berlin's "Heat Wave" opposite Fred Astaire.
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 | Copacabana
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $3.99 Carmen Miranda's last starring role was this ill-conceived black and white musical where she plays a dual role (Brazilian bombshell and French chanteuse) and romances Groucho Marx.
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 | Gilda
Buy new: $11.99 / Used from: $6.33 Set in Buenos Aires, this is the film that truly made Rita Hayworth a star and typecast her for the rest of her life.
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 | The Lady from Shanghai
Buy new: $17.99 / Used from: $5.99 Rita Hayworth plays a blonde femme fatale in this bizarre and visually striking but (in my humble opinion) generally overrated film noir directed by then husband Orson Welles.
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 | Battleground
Buy new: $5.79 / Used from: $3.41 It's Mexican Ricardo Montalban's turn to play the token Latino soldier in one the best films in his career. From the same director as 'The Ox-Bow Incident.'
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 | Joan of Arc
Buy used from: $39.95 Puerto Rican Jose Ferrer made his film debut and got an Oscar nomination for his supporting role in this Ingrid Bergman vehicle.
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 | Moulin Rouge
Buy new: $9.98 / Used from: $2.18 Jose Ferrer played French painter Toulouse-Latrec in John Houston's biopic and got another (Best Actor) Oscar nomination.
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 | Vera Cruz
Buy used from: $9.00 Spanish star Sarita Montiel makes her Hollywood debut as a sexy Mexican rebel and gets to kiss Gary Cooper. A fun but very violent revisionist western.
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 | High Noon (Collector's Edition)
Buy new: $15.49 / Used from: $8.46 Gary Cooper chooses to marry repressed Quaker Grace Kelly over sultry Mexican mistress-turned-saloon owner Katy Jurado. Only Hollywood racial politics justify his decision.
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 | Broken Lance
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $4.97 For playing Spencer Tracy's wife in this Shakespearean western, Mexican Katy Jurado got the Oscar nomination she deserved for "High Noon."
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 | One-Eyed Jacks
Buy used from: $0.01 Katy Jurado plays another supporting role in yet another revisionist western. Directed by star Marlon Brando. With Pina Pellicer as Jurado's daughter. Beware the bad DVD transfers.
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 | Separate Tables
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $8.96 In this drama, an older Rita Hayworth shows that she could act, but the real acting honors go to Wendy Hiller, Deborah Kerr and Oscar winner David Niven.
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 | Sayonara
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $3.70 In this Oscar winning Oriental romance starring Marlon Brando, Ricardo Montalban has a supporting role as a Japanese kabuki actor.
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 | The King and I
Buy used from: $10.68 Shall we dance? A very young Rita Moreno never looked better on-screen than playing Tuptim, the titular King's new lover.
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 | West Side Story (Special Edition Collector's Set)
Buy new: $22.49 / Used from: $8.99 The movie that patriotic Puerto Ricans love to hate and hate to love. It's a lot of fun and Rita Moreno stole the show (and won an Oscar) as Anita. Special edition includes screenplay.
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