On the Riviera thoroughly displays the amazing talent of Danny Kaye as he doubles most convincingly as an entertainer and the flirtatious fellow the actor is paid to emulate, since they look so very alike. Danny Kaye is one of the very few that acted from the heart and can carry you unabashedly to tears at the moment of painful truth with him or clown around and behave so absolutely slapstick silly you cannot stop roaring! Few actors have ever been so gifted with talent in all areas as this man and to see him in action is a great privilege, even from the movie screen. I love this movie, it is clean, quality family entertainment that will keep you simultaneously riveted and charmed. Danny Kaye is fascinating in every performance and Riviera is dinner and dessert all in one.

I love Danny Kaye. Great for your collection though you may not view it more than once.

I had forgotten how much I enjoyed Danny Kaye as a performer. This film makes you feel good, and smile. Thank you for sending it so quickly, and in great condition.

If you are a Danny Kaye fan you will like this one. Not his usual crazy antics but fast paced. I hope his movies will continue to be released. I'm looking forward to "Merry Andrew."

danny kaye, like so many comics from another era, is an acquired taste. his quirky faces, his voice that could accelerate from a soft high tenor to a keening wail in a matter of seconds and word driven patter songs were probably perfect on a 1940s broadway or nightclub stage. because, well, you can't clone someone live and in person--at least not outside the cirque du soleil.

but this film gives you two kayes in the third official remake of the fox musical 'folies bergere', which had to have been inspired by the lunt-fontanne classic 'the guardsman'. kaye, in the dual roles of a philandering head of state and the philandering nightclub entertainer that impersonates him, is overcompensating for his non present female leads. there is gene tierney as the trophy wife of the figurehead who has nothing more to do than look smashing in her array of lemaire gowns. the lush 1950s technicolor cinematography serves her raven haired beauty well. this role does not. then there is corinne calvet who was fairly new to films as the fiancee of the entertainer. she's pretty and overwhelmed by the fact that carmen miranda played her role in the 1941 version.

'on the riviera' is saved by jack cole's undersung choreography of the musical numbers, which feature his magically rapturous versions of east indian dance, nice tight groupings of toned, well-trained cole-style dancers and gwen verdon, minutes before she would take broadway on in michael kidd's choreography for 'can-can'. even though verdon's unique voice is dubbed, her body is not. she is a curvy, voluptuous delight as she leads the ensemble in the opening of the first number. her dancing is clean and precise and oh so feminine. she is a knock-out! if only she had gotten the calvet role...