…And the World Laughs

…And the World Laughs is a 1948 Brazilian musical and comedy film directed by Watson Macedo.

Since there were possibilities to present a technically acceptable show, why use such a disjointed story, a mere pretext to showcase some musical numbers with the inevitable radio artists of our time?

"[4] The film is also referred to as And the World Has Fun (a more literal translation of the original Portuguese title, ...E o mundo se diverte.

)[5] A theater typist facing financial crisis is mistakenly diagnosed with only a short time left to live because a mix-up at the clinic exchanged his X-ray with that of another patient.

The typist’s dream is to produce a revista, which no one believes in, but paradoxically ends up saving the theater from bankruptcy.