Rose Marie

ROSE MARIE

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CREDITS

1936, 113 minutes, B&W.
Producer, Hunt Stromberg; Director, W.S. Van Dyke; Screenplay; Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett and Alice Duer Miller; Cinematography, William Daniels; Music Director, Herbert Stothart; Dance Direction, Chester Hale.

CAST

Marie de Flor, Jeanette MacDonald; Sergeant Bruce, Nelson Eddy; John de Flor, James Stewart; Myerson, Reginald Owen; Romeo, Allan Jones; Boniface, George Regas; Bella, Gilda Gray; Premier, Alan Mowbray; Cafe Manager, Robert Greig; Anna, Una O'Connor; Teddy, David Niven; Mr. Daniells, Herman Bing; Storekeeper, Lucien Littlefield.

SONGS

Rose Marie; Indian Love Call by Rudolf Friml, Otto Harbach and Oscar Hammerstein II; The Mounties; Totem Tom Tom by Friml, Harbach, Hammerstein and Herbert Stothart; Just for You; Pardon Me Madame by Stothart and Gus Kahn; Dinah by Harry Akst, Sam Lewis and Joe Young; Some of These Days by Shelton Brooks; Tes Yeux by Rene Alphonse Rabey; scenes from Romeo and Juliet by Gounod and Tosca by Puccini.

PLOT SYNOPSIS

"Marie de Flor (MacDonald), a glamorous Canadian prima donna, is renowned for her beauty, exquisite voice and fierce temperament. When news arrives that her brother Jack (Jimmy Stewart) has been wounded in a prison escape, and has killed a Mountie to boot, Marie realizes that she must go to him despite the danger. Lured into the wilderness, she is stranded at a rough outpost where she encounters Sgt. Bruce (Eddy), who is hunting the fugitive and is soon hot on Marie's trail as well."
- Liner Notes from MGM/Turner Laserdisc

NOTES

"The quintessential operetta, and probably the one most closely associated with MacDonald and Eddy, Rose Marie was, as MGM's hierarchy had hoped, another box-office hit, collecting rave reviews and legions of new fans for its singing love-birds wherever it was shown."
- Clive Hirschhorn, The Hollywood Musical

"An operatic honey with MacDonald and Eddy for the tungstens."
- Variety

"Singing "Indian Love Call," Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy are in a class of their own; the wholesome, hearty fakery of it is matchless. This is one of the liveliest and most popular of their kitschfests."
- Pauline Kael, 5001 Nights At The Movies

MGM remade Rose Marie in 1954.

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