Rose Marie 1954

Rose Marie


MGM, 1954, Color, 115 and 102 minutes, **½

Released April, 1954



Though this is supposedly a remake of the Nelson Eddy / Jeanette MacDonald Rose-Marie (1936), it bears little resemblance to the orginial. However, it has a good cast and some good moments. It's well worth the price of admission just to see the antics of Bert Lahr and Marjorie Main! There are several different prints of this film floating around on home video, but it is hard to find.



Produced and Directed by: Mervyn LeRoy

Assistant Director: Arvid Griffen

Screen Play by: Ronald Millar and George Froeschel

Based on the Operetta "Rose Marie" presented on the stage by Arthur Hammerstein, Book and Lyrics by Otto A. Harbach and Oscar Hammerstein II

Music by: Rudolf Friml and Herbert Stothart

Lyrics for Screen Version by: Paul Francis Webster

Additional Music and Lyrics by: Rudolf Friml, George Stoll and Herbert Baker

Musical Direction by: George Stoll

Orchestration: Leo Arnaud and Robert Van Eps

Musical Numbers Staged by: Busby Berkeley

Art Directors: Cedric Gibbons and Merrill Pye

Set Decorations: Edwin B. Willis, Ralph Hurst

Women's Costumes Designed by: Helen Rose

Hair Styles by: Sydney Guilaroff

Make-Up Created by: William Tuttle

Recording Supervisor: Douglas Shearer

Director of Photography: Paul Vogel

Special Effects: A. Arnold Gillespie, Warren Newcombe

Montage Sequence by: Peter Ballbusch

Filmed in CinemaScope and Eastman Color

Color Consultant: Alvord Eiseman

Film Editor: Harold F. Kress



Cast: Ann Blyth [Rose Marie Lemaitre], Howard Keel [Mike Malone], Fernando Lamas [James Severn Duval], Bert Lahr [Barney McGorkle], Marjorie Main [Lady Jane Dunstock], Joan Taylor [Wanda], Ray Collins [Inspector Appleby], Chief Yowlachie [Black Eagle], Additional Cast: James Logan [Clerk], Thurl Ravenscroft [Indian Medicine Man], Abel Fernandez [Indian Warrior], Billy Dix [Mess Waiter], Al Ferguson [Woodsman], Frank Hagney [Woodsman], Marshall Reed [Mountie], Sheb Wooley [Corporal], Dabbs Greer [Committeeman], John Pickard [Orderly], John Damler [Orderly], Sally Yarnell [Hostess], Gordon Richards [Attorney], Lumsden Hare [Judge], Mickey Simpson [Trapper], Pepi Lanzi [Johnny Lang]



Musical Program: [0:00] Overture: "Rose Marie" (played by Orchestra behind titles); [0:07] The Right Place for a Girl (sung by Howard Keel); [0:14] The Mounties (sung by Howard Keel and Mens Chorus); [0:19] Free to Be Free (sung by Ann Blyth); [0:26] Rose Marie (with special lyrics, sung by Howard Keel); [0:37] The Mountie Who Never Got His Man (sung by Bert Lahr); [0:57] Indian Love Call (sung by Ann Blyth and Fernando Lamas); [1:05] Rose Marie (sung by Howard Keel); [1:09] Totum Tom Tom (production number sung by Chorus, danced by Joan Taylor and Chorus); [1:16] I Have the Love (sung by Ann Blyth and Fernando Lamas); [1:29] Indian Love Call (reprised by Ann Blyth and her echo); [cut] "Love and Kisses" (Marjorie Main and Bert Lahr, outtake)