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Illustrations 1.1. Biracial cast in Behrman’s play 1.2. Serafin’s troupe in the film is also multiethnic 1.3. Don Pedro is annoyed when Serafin and Manuela ignore him 1.4. Don Pedro confronts Serafin in Manuela’s bedroom 1.5. Serafin hypnotizing Manuela in the stage play 1.6. Serafin hypnotizing Manuela in the film 1.7. A long shot of the stage from the stage play 1.8. A long shot of the stage from the film 2.1. Manuela looks tortured when Don Pedro threatens Serafin 2.2. Manuela is relieved that Serafin is alive 2.3. The Viceroy is flattered as Serafin plays to his vanity 2.4. The incriminating prop box filled with the pirate’s treasure 3.1. Serafin and Manuela meet near the sea wall 3.2. Kelly going up the rope in the “Pirate Ballet” 3.3. Serafin, the consummate performer, on Manuela’s trousseau box 3.4. Serafin points to the capture of Macoco as if it is part of his performance 3.5. Serafin knocks off the guards’ hats to impress Manuela 3.6. Serafin is about to kiss Manuela to awaken her from a trance 3.7. Kelly’s daring pose challenges racial conventions in the 1940s 4.1. Kelly leaps acrobatically to climb a wall during “Niña” 4.2. Kelly flies high as Dee Turnell spins below him in “Niña” 4.3. Ethnically diverse “Niña” girls watch Serafin dance 4.4. Kelly jumps high above the admiring “Niña” girls 4.5. Garland sings the rousing “Mack the Black” number 4.6. Manuela sings “You Can Do No Wrong” to the injured Serafin 4.7. Serafin and Manuela in the sensuous “Love of My Life” 4.8. Don Pedro’s palpable jealousy of Serafin and Manuela’s passion 4.9. Lunt pretending to walk the tightrope 4.10. Kelly actually walking the tightrope 4.11. The prelude to the frantic tantrum sequence ix x • List of Illustrations 4.12. Manuela walking through town to “sacrifice” herself to Macoco 4.13. Kelly and the Nicholas Brothers dance acrobatically in “Be a Clown” 4.14. Harold Nicholas struggles to pull Kelly aloft 4.15. Kelly pulls Fayard Nicholas easily off the floor 4.16. Vaudeville humor in the “Be a Clown” reprise 4.17. Kelly and Garland laughing as themselves 4.18. Kelly with other dancers in the “Pirate Ballet” 5.1. Kelly strutting down the street à la John Barrymore 5.2. A storybook reading about Macoco opens the film 5.3. Manuela thinking about the last time she wore the hat 5.4. Irish censors objected to this “passionate” embrace 6.1. Serafin and Manuela interact with passion in “Love of My Life” 6.2. Serafin dances around the white mule 6.3. Manuela imagines Serafin as the pirate Macoco 6.4. Manuela looks flustered and agitated at her own fantasy 6.5. Kelly in the much discussed enormous close-up ...

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