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)
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