Rose Marie

Rose Marie

Director: Mervyn LeRoy Cast: Howard Keel
Howard Keel
, Ann Blyth
Ann Blyth
, Fernando Lamas
Fernando Lamas
, Bert Lahr
Bert Lahr
Mervyn LeRoy
Rose Marie

Rose Marie

Director: Mervyn LeRoy Cast: Howard Keel
Howard Keel
, Ann Blyth
Ann Blyth
, Fernando Lamas
Fernando Lamas
, Bert Lahr
Bert Lahr
Mervyn LeRoy

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Overview

1954's Rose Marie is the third film version of the 1924 Otto Harbach-Oscar Hammerstein-Rudolph Frinl operetta of the same name. Though not a completely faithful adaptation, this version is closer to the original than the (admittedly enjoyable) Nelson Eddy-Jeanette MacDonald version of 1936. Ann Blyth stars as Rose Marie Lemaitre, a hoydenish French-Canadian lass who is "tamed" by cheerful mountie Mike Malone (Howard Keel). At first, Mike is only interested in using Rose Marie to capture her sweetheart, renegade trapper Duval (Fernando Lamas), but eventually he falls in love with her, and she with him. Counterpointing the romantic main plot are the comic antics of Bert Lahr, who elucidates his sorry lot in life with the song "I'm the Mountie Who Never Gets His Man." The original Rudy Friml score is well in evidence, along with several new Friml compositions and a few extra tunes penned by Georgie Stoll and Herbert Baker. There's also a remarkable "Indian sacrifice" production number spotlighting a young Rita Moreno. Original Cinemascope prints of Rose Marie included a nine-minute prologue, wherein conductor Alfred Wallenstein led the MGM orchestra in a rendition of "Poet and Peasant Overture" (this was evidently inspired by the similar symphonic prologue which opened 20th Century Fox's How to Marry a Millionaire).

Product Details

Release Date: 05/27/2011
UPC: 0883316336885
Original Release: 1954
Rating: NR
Source: Warner Archives
Presentation: [Wide Screen]
Sound: [Dolby Digital Stereo]
Language: English
Time: 1:44:00
Sales rank: 28,915

Cast & Crew

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

Technical Credits
Mervyn LeRoy Director,Producer
Ronald Millar Screenwriter
George Froeschel Screenwriter
A. Arnold Gillespie Special Effects
Warren Newcombe Special Effects
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