While the Lunts themselves expressed interest in bringing the story to the screen, MGM envisioned the project as a comedy for William Powell and either Myrna Loy or Hedy Lamarr.
Opening at the Martin Beck Theatre on November 25, 1942, The Pirate played for 176 performances before the screen rights were purchased by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer for $225,000. Behrman, which had starred Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne. Vincente Minnelli directed the film, from a screenplay based on the 1942 Broadway play by S. Specialty dance sequence by The Nicholas Brothers.Walter Slezak as Don Pedro Vargas, a.k.a.Manuela joins Serafin's act and the film ends with them singing a reprise of "Be a Clown." Serafin's troupe attacks him with all the items and juggling balls, and the lovers embrace. Don Pedro, jealous, reveals himself as the true Macoco and seizes her. Panicked, Manuela pretends to be hypnotized and sings "Love of My Life," vowing everlasting devotion to Macoco. As a finale, he plans to hypnotize Don Pedro into admitting he is Macoco, but Manuela's aunt uses her parasol to break the mirror that Serafin uses to hypnotize people. Serafin asks to do one last show before he is hanged, and sings and dances " Be a Clown" with two fellow troupe members (the Nicholas Brothers). On the night of his hanging, Manuela finally gets to look at the false evidence, and recognizes a bracelet with the same design as the wedding ring that Don Pedro gave her, and realizes that he is the pirate.
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The army arrests him, and Manuela's protests can't free him. He plants treasure in Serafin's prop trunk to make him look like a pirate. Meanwhile, Don Pedro convinces the viceroy that Serafin is the real Macoco and should hang for it. She accidentally knocks him out, then she realizes that she loves him, and sings "You Can Do No Wrong." To get her revenge, she first pretends to seduce him, then attacks him with words and throws objects. One of Serafin's troupe accidentally reveals his plan to Manuela. Finally, she happily agrees to go with him. The next day, he threatens to burn down the town if he can't have her. Still, watching from her window as he dances, she begins to daydream about him. He reveals himself before the whole town as Macoco, then asks Manuela if she will come with him she again refuses. Serafin then decides to pretend to be Macoco in order to win over Manuela. He blackmails Macoco with this information, swearing to tell it to Manuela if Don Pedro forbids the performers from putting on a show.
Serafin recognizes Don Pedro as Macoco, retired and obese. Don Pedro, hearing noise in her room, arrives at her door, and asks her to go away so that he can teach Serafin a lesson. Serafin begs her to join his troupe, and asks her to admit that she loves him. On Manuela's wedding day, the traveling players arrive in Calvados. Instead, she wildly sings and dances about her love for "Mack the Black." Serafin awakens her with a kiss, and she flees in horror. That night, however, she can't sleep, and sneaks out to go see Serafin's show.Īt the show, Serafin hypnotizes Manuela, thinking that she will admit that she loves him.
He compliments her beauty and begs her not to marry Don Pedro, but, angered, she hurries away. When he encounters Manuela, however, he falls in love with her at first sight. A traveling circus has arrived, and Serafin ( Gene Kelly), its handsome leader, flirts with all the girls in the song "Niña". Shortly before her wedding, Manuela visits a nearby town, Port Sebastian. However, her aunt and uncle (who have raised her) insist that she marry the town mayor, the rotund and bullying Don Pedro ( Walter Slezak). Manuela Alva ( Judy Garland), who lives in the small Caribbean village of Calvados, dreams of being swept away by the legendary Pirate, Mack "the Black" Macoco.