And she couldn't distance herself from him soon enough! I understand he looked like Charlie Chaplin's Tramp. Poor woman. I really liked her looks and her deep, very deep contralto.
I'll grant you that La Paloma is as absurd as it gets, particularly to this native Puerto Rican who laughed...
You mean La Paloma with Zarah Leander trapped in Puerto Rico, married to a nasty Spanish landowner; with a child suffering from Puerto Rican fever who can only be saved (as she is) by the ministrations of a handsome Aryan, is not a comedy?:D