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Mardi Gras is a american film of genre Musical directed by Edmund Goulding released in USA on 18 november 1958 with Pat Boone
Mardi Gras (1958)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 18 november 1958
Length 1h47
Directed by Edmund Goulding
OriginUSA
Genres Musical
Rating54%
Mardi Gras was a 1958 musical comedy film starring Pat Boone and Christine Carère.
^ Solomon, Aubrey. Twentieth Century Fox: A Corporate and Financial History (The Scarecrow Filmmakers Series). Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press, 1989. ISBN 978-0-8108-4244-1. p251
^ Aubrey Solomon, Twentieth Century Fox: A Corporate and Financial History, Scarecrow Press, 1989 p227
Synopsis
A military school cadet (Boone) wins a date with a French movie goddess (Carère) who happens to be the queen of the "Mardi Gras" parade. The two fall in love, but Carère's movie studio wants to capitalize on this newly found love for publicity.Actors
Pat Boone
(Paul Newell)
Christine Carrère
(Michelle Marton)
Tommy Sands
(Barry Denton)
Sheree North
(Eadie West)
Gary Crosby
(Tony Collins)
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