ROSALIE

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CREDITS

1937, 117 minutes, B&W.
Producer, William Anthony McGuire; Director, W.S. Van Dyke; Screenplay, William Anthony McGuire; Cinematography, Oliver Marsh; Music Director, Herbert Stothart; Choreography, Albertina Rasch.

CAST

Dick Thorpe, Nelson Eddy; Princess Rosalie, Eleanor Powell; King, Frank Morgan; Bill Delroy, Ray Bolger; Brenda, Ilona Massey; Chancellor, Reginald Owen; Queen, Edna May Oliver; Joseph, Jerry Colonna; Prince Paul, Tom Rutherford; Mary Calahan, Virginia Grey; Oloff, Billy Gilbert; General Maroff, George Zucco; Army Coach, William Demarest; Captain Banner, Clay Clement; Mr. Calahan, Oscar O'Shea.

SONGS

Rosalie; In the Still of the Night; I've a Strange New Rhythm In My Heart; Who Knows?; Spring Love Is In the Air; Why Should I Care?; It's All Over But the Shouting; To Love Or Not To Love; M'Appari by Cole Porter.

PLOT SYNOPSIS

"Nelson Eddy plays Dick Thorpe, a West Point football hero (and intrepid aviator) who scores the winning touchdown in his final Army-Navy game, and falls headlong in love with Rosalie (Powell), a sarcastic but very pretty Vassar student. Rosalie at first spurns Dick, but after he comes thirty miles to sing beneath her window, she invites him to meet her at the Spring Festival in her homeland, the microscopic Balkan kingdom of Romanza. Dick flies over the Atlantic in his plane, not knowing that Rosalie is actually the daughter of Romanza's reluctant King, whose overbearing Queen is determined that Princess Rosalie marry the son of the Chancellor."
- Liner Notes from MGM/Turner Videotape

NOTES

"Rosalie teamed Nelson Eddy with Eleanor Powell in a preposterous cross between operetta and college musical."
- Clive Hirschhorn, The Hollywood Musical

"The most lavish, ornate, tinselled and glittering production which has come from Hollywood."
- Variety

"Eleanor Powell, in her big smiles and big puffed sleeves, and Ray Bolger dance together - sort of. She also has a romance with Nelson Eddy, who looks even more uncomfortable about the whole thing than she does - and romance was never her forte. . .Sometimes there are so many showgirls surrounding Powell that you have to strain to see her tapping away, like a wholesome automaton."
- Pauline Kael, 5001 Nights At The Movies

The film incorporated footage from an unfinished 1930 version starring Marion Davies.

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