ROSE MARIE

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CREDITS

1954, 115 minutes, Cinemascope, Technicolor.
Producer, Mervyn LeRoy; Director, Mervyn LeRoy; Screenplay, Ronald Miller and George Froeschel; Cinematography, Paul C. Vogel; Choreography, Busby Berkeley; Music Director, Georgie Stoll.

CAST

Rose Marie Lemaitre, Ann Blyth; Mike Malone, Howard Keel; James Duval, Fernando Lamas; Barney McCorkle, Bert Lahr; Lady Jane Dunstock, Marjorie Main; Wanda, Joan Taylor; Inspector Appleby, Ray Collins; Black Eagle, Chief Yowlachie.

SONGS

Indian Love Call; Rose Marie; Song Of The Mounties; Totem Tom Tom by Rudolf Friml, Otto Harbach and Oscar Hammerstein II; The Right Place For The Girl; Free To Be Free; I Have The Love by Friml and Paul Francis Webster; I'm The Mountie Who Never Got His Man by George Stoll and Herbert Baker.

PLOT SYNOPSIS

"Rose Marie Lemaitre (Ann Blyth) is a beautiful, headstrong tomboy, raised in the rugged mountains of the Northwest Territory and used to fending for herself. Upon the death of her father, Rose Marie becomes the ward of Sgt. Mike Malone (Howard Keel), who takes her to live in the Mountie fort. Resentful at first, she soon grows to love both life at the fort and Sgt. Mike. However, Mike is soon forced to realize that the fort is no place for the lovely young woman that Rose Marie has become and brings her to 'Lady' Jane Dunstock (Marjorie Main), who instructs Rose Marie in the womanly arts."
- Liner Notes from Turner/MGM/UA Laserdisc

NOTES

"MGM's third version of Rudolf Friml's operetta Rose Marie was the first musical to be photographed in Cinemascope (but not the first to be released), and although it was neither artistically nor commercially as successful as the 1936 production, it looked impressive on the big screen, especially as much of it was filmed in color on location in the Canadian Rockies."
- Clive Hirschhorn, The Hollywood Musical

"Dull remake with stodgy handling and poor sets."
- Halliwell's Film Guide


This was a remake of the 1936 Rose Marie, which starred Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy.

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