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Rose Marie (films)
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The 1924 Broadway
musical Rose-Marie
has been the basis of three MGM films of the same title. The best-known film adaptation was released in 1936; however, a silent version was released in 1928
and another film was released in 1954. All three versions are set in the Canadian wilderness. Portions of Rudolf Friml
and Herbert Stothart
's original score for the Broadway musical are utilized in the 1936 and 1954 films.
Joan Crawford
starred in the 1928 version, alongside James Murray
. This version was filmed on location at Yosemite National Park
. Crawford later remarked, "Rose Marie was surprisingly good without the music, but I felt uneasy as a French Canadian, but the critics didn't notice."
The best known film version was the 1936 version, which starred Jeanette MacDonald
and Nelson Eddy
. Although the original plot was changed, and most of the songs were dropped, it was a huge success and became MacDonald and Eddy's best-known film. Their duet of "Indian Love Call
" was a major hit song for the two singers and remained a signature song
throughout their careers.
The 1954 Eastmancolor version in Cinemascope
more closely followed the original plot, but it still dropped most of Friml's songs. This version starred Ann Blyth
, Howard Keel
and Fernando Lamas
, with Bert Lahr
and Marjorie Main
as comic relief. It was choreographed by Busby Berkeley
.
. The film was originally slated to be in color but makeup man Fred Phillips
explained that when this was dropped, the studio ordered him to change Eddy's makeup for the worse. Phillips stated that orders came from Louis B. Mayer
, who was angry at Eddy for his personal involvement in MacDonald's life.
) is a Canadian
soprano
starring in Roméo et Juliette
, singing opposite a young tenor (Allan Jones). After the show, she refuses to see her rich suitor, Teddy (David Niven
as "David Nivens"), declaring to her maid
Roderick (Una O'Connor
) that all men are silly, except her brother Jack (James Stewart
) who is in prison. Her manager Myerson (Reginald Owen
) tells her the Premier of Québec
(Alan Mowbray
) has asked her to sing for him, and she invites him and his family to dinner in her hotel suite, hoping she can persuade him to pardon her brother. She sings "Pardon Me, Madame" for them, and soon the hotel guests, staff, and even passersby are singing with her. The premier is moved by her song and assures her he will listen to her request, not yet knowing what it is. A strange man called Boniface (George Regas) brings her an unexpected message. Jack was wounded as he escaped from prison and has killed a Mountie
. Knowing such a crime is unpardonable, she leaves for the Canadian wilderness with Boniface to find Jack.
In the mountains, Sergeant Bruce (Nelson Eddy
) and "The Mounties" are drilling. Sergeant Bruce reports to headquarters and receives his latest mission: he must find Jack Flowers, a desperate criminal hiding near Lake Chibougam who shot a Mountie. Sergeant Bruce sets off after him.
Marie and Boniface reach an outpost near Lake Chibougam, where Boniface disappears with Marie's purse. A shopkeeper advises Marie to report the theft to Sergeant Bruce, but Marie resolves not to speak to the Mounties lest they discover she is Jack's sister. Marie hears a woman singing in a cafè and asks the owner if she could get a job singing there. The owner tells her that the singers aren't paid but can keep the tips they are given. Marie agrees to sing, but is not used to singing faster, popular songs and sings "Dinah" somewhat poorly. The piano player (James Conlin) encourages her and she sings "Some of These Days
". Sergeant Bruce enters the cafè and he begins to pay attention to Marie's singing. Belle (Gilda Gray
), the usual cafè singer, is jealous and sings "Some of These Days" in her own sexy style. Marie cannot compete with Belle's physical interpretation and leaves the cafè.
Sergeant Bruce follows her and reassures her that she is a good singer. He has heard about the robbery and insists that she report the crime. He asks her name, and she calls herself Rose. He has recognized her voice, though, and marvels that he never knew such a famous opera singer's real name is 'Rose' Marie Le Flor. He asks why she has come to the mountains, and she tells him she is going to meet someone. Sergeant Bruce says they will surely find Boniface at the Indian
ceremony that night. They row across the lake to the festival, and Sergeant Bruce asks what kind of man she is going to meet. Marie says he is an Italian tenor
. Sergeant Bruce admits to not being Italian, but sings "Rose Marie" to her to prove he can sing. She tells him his composition is remarkable, and he begins a reprise, accidentally beginning "Oh, Caroline" instead of "Rose Marie". He admits that almost any girl's name can fit in his song, and he has sung it to many girls before.
Marie and the Sergeant watch the "Totem Tom-Tom" at the Indian festival. Sergeant Bruce questions the Indians about Jack Flower as Marie corners Boniface and threatens to turn him in to Sergeant Bruce unless he takes her to her brother. She arranges to set off with him in an hour.
Back at her hotel, Marie promises Sergeant Bruce to wait for him there until he is off-duty. Though Marie just hopes to get rid of him, she instead inspires him to sing "Just For You" at her window. Sergeant Bruce bids her goodbye and returns to headquarters, where he describes his new love to an old friend. He realizes that his Rose Marie's last name—de flor—is Flower in English, and realizes she must be related to Jack Flower. He returns to Marie's hotel to question her, but finds she is gone.
As Boniface and Marie travel on horseback, he gives her a map that leads to in his mother's house near Hayman's Landing where Jack is hiding. Marie, amused by the echoing cliffs, sings a round of "Three Blind Mice" with herself. Sergeant Bruce hears her from across the valley. Boniface and Marie come to a river and Marie insists on crossing it to save time even though she has never ridden across a river before. She is swept off her horse into the river, and Boniface tries to save her. Sergeant Bruce arrives, and Boniface runs into the forest from the Mountie as the Sergeant rescues her.
Marie haughtily refuses the Sergeant's help until nightfall, insisting Boniface will come back for her. When she realizes he will not return, she accepts the food he offers her and runs to his arms when a sound in the forest frightens her. Sergeant Bruce tells her an Indian legend of star-crossed
lovers. Their spirits still inhabit that place, and when a lover gives their call, they echo it until it reaches the one he loves. Rose Marie sings the "Indian Love Call
", and the Sergeant echos it. That night, the Sergeant tries to find Marie's map in her clothes hanging over the fire, but she keeps it with her inside the tent.
Marie cannot find a new guide until she reaches Hayman's Landing, so she and the Sergeant travel together for the next three days. On their last night travelling together, Marie asks him how he can dedicate his life to hunting down fugitives. She asks him to become a singer with her, and he declines. They admit that they love each other, singing "Indian Love Call" again, and she asks him to come if she ever calls him. He sharply returns to reality and they continue on their way. When they reach Hayman's Landing, he insists that she will not care about him when she returns to the city, and will see him as only a policeman.
Rose Marie finds Jack in the cabin and tries to persuade him to reform. She gives him the money necessary to start over, and he tells her he is considering moving to China
. Sergeant Bruce appears with a gun and handcuffs Jack. Marie begs him to let her brother go, but the Sergeant is unmoved by her plee, even as she sings the "Indian Love Call". He takes Jack with him on horseback.
Marie is performing as an opera star again, this time playing the title role in the opera Tosca
opposite the same tenor who played Romèo. She keeps hearing "Indian Love Call" throughout the opera and collapses onstage. Marie retires to a mountain lodge and refuses to sing for six months. Her manager Myerson visits and tells her how disappointed he is not to hear her voice again. After he leaves, she begins "Indian Love Call". Myerson urges Sergeant Bruce, who had been hiding in the foyer, to join her, and they sing together.
Broadway theatre
Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 40 professional theatres with 500 or more seats located in the Theatre District centered along Broadway, and in Lincoln Center, in Manhattan in New York City...
musical Rose-Marie
Rose-Marie
Rose-Marie is an operetta-style musical with music by Rudolf Friml and Herbert Stothart, and book and lyrics by Otto Harbach and Oscar Hammerstein II. The story takes place in the Canadian Rockies and concerns Rose-Marie La Flemme, a French Canadian girl who loves miner Jim Kenyon...
has been the basis of three MGM films of the same title. The best-known film adaptation was released in 1936; however, a silent version was released in 1928
Rose-Marie (1928 film)
Rose-Marie was a 1928 drama film directed by Lucien Hubbard. It is the first of three MGM adaptations of the 1924 Broadway musical Rose-Marie The best-known film adaptation was released in 1936; another film was released in 1954. All three versions are set in the Canadian wilderness...
and another film was released in 1954. All three versions are set in the Canadian wilderness. Portions of Rudolf Friml
Rudolf Friml
Rudolf Friml was a composer of operettas, musicals, songs and piano pieces, as well as a pianist. After musical training and a brief performing career in his native Prague, Friml moved to the United States, where he became a composer...
and Herbert Stothart
Herbert Stothart
Herbert Stothart was a song writer, arranger, conductor, and composer. He was also nominated for nine Oscars, winning Best Original Score for The Wizard of Oz.-Biography:...
's original score for the Broadway musical are utilized in the 1936 and 1954 films.
Joan Crawford
Joan Crawford
Joan Crawford , born Lucille Fay LeSueur, was an American actress in film, television and theatre....
starred in the 1928 version, alongside James Murray
James Murray (actor)
James Murray was an American movie actor.-Background:Born in The Bronx, New York, James Murray went to Hollywood in the 1920s to try to succeed as an actor. After several years of work, mostly as an extra, with little hope of a starring role, he was "discovered" by director King Vidor, who saw...
. This version was filmed on location at Yosemite National Park
Yosemite National Park
Yosemite National Park is a United States National Park spanning eastern portions of Tuolumne, Mariposa and Madera counties in east central California, United States. The park covers an area of and reaches across the western slopes of the Sierra Nevada mountain chain...
. Crawford later remarked, "Rose Marie was surprisingly good without the music, but I felt uneasy as a French Canadian, but the critics didn't notice."
The best known film version was the 1936 version, which starred Jeanette MacDonald
Jeanette MacDonald
Jeanette MacDonald was an American singer and actress best remembered for her musical films of the 1930s with Maurice Chevalier and Nelson Eddy...
and Nelson Eddy
Nelson Eddy
Nelson Ackerman Eddy was an American singer and actor who appeared in 19 musical films during the 1930s and 1940s, as well as in opera and on the concert stage, radio, television, and in nightclubs. A classically trained baritone, he is best remembered for the eight films in which he costarred...
. Although the original plot was changed, and most of the songs were dropped, it was a huge success and became MacDonald and Eddy's best-known film. Their duet of "Indian Love Call
Indian Love Call
"Indian Love Call" is a song from Rose-Marie, a 1924 operetta-style Broadway musical with music by Rudolf Friml and Herbert Stothart, and book and lyrics by Otto Harbach and Oscar Hammerstein II...
" was a major hit song for the two singers and remained a signature song
Signature song
A signature song is the one song that a popular and well-established singer or band is most closely identified with or best known for, even if they have had success with a variety of songs...
throughout their careers.
The 1954 Eastmancolor version in Cinemascope
CinemaScope
CinemaScope was an anamorphic lens series used for shooting wide screen movies from 1953 to 1967. Its creation in 1953, by the president of 20th Century-Fox, marked the beginning of the modern anamorphic format in both principal photography and movie projection.The anamorphic lenses theoretically...
more closely followed the original plot, but it still dropped most of Friml's songs. This version starred Ann Blyth
Ann Blyth
Ann Marie Blyth is an American actress and singer, often cast in Hollywood musicals, but also successful in dramatic roles. Her performance as Veda Pierce in the 1945 film Mildred Pierce was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.-Life and career:Blyth was born in Mount Kisco,...
, Howard Keel
Howard Keel
Harold Clifford Keel , known professionally as Howard Keel, was an American actor and singer. He starred in many film musicals of the 1950s...
and Fernando Lamas
Fernando Lamas
Fernando Álvaro Lamas was an Argentine-born actor and director, and the father of actor Lorenzo Lamas.-Early life and career:...
, with Bert Lahr
Bert Lahr
Bert Lahr was an American actor and comedian. Lahr is remembered today for his roles as the Cowardly Lion and Kansas farmworker Zeke in The Wizard of Oz, but was also well-known for work in burlesque, vaudeville, and on Broadway.-Early life:Lahr was born in New York City, of German-Jewish heritage...
and Marjorie Main
Marjorie Main
Marjorie Main was an American character actress, mainly at MGM, perhaps best known for her role as Ma Kettle in a series of ten Ma and Pa Kettle movies.-Early life and career:...
as comic relief. It was choreographed by Busby Berkeley
Busby Berkeley
Busby Berkeley was a highly influential Hollywood movie director and musical choreographer. Berkeley was famous for his elaborate musical production numbers that often involved complex geometric patterns...
.
Production
While footage of the Mounties in boot camp was filmed in Canada, location filming with the lead actors was at Lake TahoeLake Tahoe
Lake Tahoe is a large freshwater lake in the Sierra Nevada of the United States. At a surface elevation of , it is located along the border between California and Nevada, west of Carson City. Lake Tahoe is the largest alpine lake in North America. Its depth is , making it the USA's second-deepest...
. The film was originally slated to be in color but makeup man Fred Phillips
Fred Phillips (makeup artist)
Fred Beauregard Phillips was a Hollywood makeup artist, best known for his early work at MGM Studios and later on the Star Trek TV series. At MGM he worked under Jack Dawn and William J. Tuttle. In 1980 Phillips was nominated for a Saturn Award for best makeup on the film Star Trek: The Motion...
explained that when this was dropped, the studio ordered him to change Eddy's makeup for the worse. Phillips stated that orders came from Louis B. Mayer
Louis B. Mayer
Louis Burt Mayer born Lazar Meir was an American film producer. He is generally cited as the creator of the "star system" within Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in its golden years. Known always as Louis B...
, who was angry at Eddy for his personal involvement in MacDonald's life.
Synopsis
Marie de Flor (Jeanette MacDonaldJeanette MacDonald
Jeanette MacDonald was an American singer and actress best remembered for her musical films of the 1930s with Maurice Chevalier and Nelson Eddy...
) is a Canadian
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
soprano
Soprano
A soprano is a voice type with a vocal range from approximately middle C to "high A" in choral music, or to "soprano C" or higher in operatic music. In four-part chorale style harmony, the soprano takes the highest part, which usually encompasses the melody...
starring in Roméo et Juliette
Roméo et Juliette
Roméo et Juliette is an opéra in five acts by Charles Gounod to a French libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré, based on The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare. It was first performed at the Théâtre Lyrique , Paris on 27 April 1867...
, singing opposite a young tenor (Allan Jones). After the show, she refuses to see her rich suitor, Teddy (David Niven
David Niven
James David Graham Niven , known as David Niven, was a British actor and novelist, best known for his roles as Phileas Fogg in Around the World in 80 Days and Sir Charles Lytton, a.k.a. "the Phantom", in The Pink Panther...
as "David Nivens"), declaring to her maid
Maid
A maidservant or in current usage housemaid or maid is a female employed in domestic service.-Description:Once part of an elaborate hierarchy in great houses, today a single maid may be the only domestic worker that upper and even middle-income households can afford, as was historically the case...
Roderick (Una O'Connor
Una O'Connor
Una O'Connor was an Irish actress who worked extensively in theatre before becoming a notable character actress in film.-Life and work:...
) that all men are silly, except her brother Jack (James Stewart
James Stewart (actor)
James Maitland Stewart was an American film and stage actor, known for his distinctive voice and his everyman persona. Over the course of his career, he starred in many films widely considered classics and was nominated for five Academy Awards, winning one in competition and receiving one Lifetime...
) who is in prison. Her manager Myerson (Reginald Owen
Reginald Owen
John Reginald Owen was a British character actor. He was known for his many roles in British and American movies and later in television programs.-Personal:...
) tells her the Premier of Québec
Premier of Quebec
The Premier of Quebec is the first minister of the Canadian province of Quebec. The Premier is the province's head of government and his title is Premier and President of the Executive Council....
(Alan Mowbray
Alan Mowbray
Alan Mowbray MM, , was an English stage and film actor who found success in Hollywood.Born Alfred Ernest Allen in London, England, he served with distinction the British Army in World War I, being awarded the Military Medal for bravery...
) has asked her to sing for him, and she invites him and his family to dinner in her hotel suite, hoping she can persuade him to pardon her brother. She sings "Pardon Me, Madame" for them, and soon the hotel guests, staff, and even passersby are singing with her. The premier is moved by her song and assures her he will listen to her request, not yet knowing what it is. A strange man called Boniface (George Regas) brings her an unexpected message. Jack was wounded as he escaped from prison and has killed a Mountie
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police , literally ‘Royal Gendarmerie of Canada’; colloquially known as The Mounties, and internally as ‘The Force’) is the national police force of Canada, and one of the most recognized of its kind in the world. It is unique in the world as a national, federal,...
. Knowing such a crime is unpardonable, she leaves for the Canadian wilderness with Boniface to find Jack.
In the mountains, Sergeant Bruce (Nelson Eddy
Nelson Eddy
Nelson Ackerman Eddy was an American singer and actor who appeared in 19 musical films during the 1930s and 1940s, as well as in opera and on the concert stage, radio, television, and in nightclubs. A classically trained baritone, he is best remembered for the eight films in which he costarred...
) and "The Mounties" are drilling. Sergeant Bruce reports to headquarters and receives his latest mission: he must find Jack Flowers, a desperate criminal hiding near Lake Chibougam who shot a Mountie. Sergeant Bruce sets off after him.
Marie and Boniface reach an outpost near Lake Chibougam, where Boniface disappears with Marie's purse. A shopkeeper advises Marie to report the theft to Sergeant Bruce, but Marie resolves not to speak to the Mounties lest they discover she is Jack's sister. Marie hears a woman singing in a cafè and asks the owner if she could get a job singing there. The owner tells her that the singers aren't paid but can keep the tips they are given. Marie agrees to sing, but is not used to singing faster, popular songs and sings "Dinah" somewhat poorly. The piano player (James Conlin) encourages her and she sings "Some of These Days
Some of These Days
"Some of These Days" is a popular song published in 1910 associated with Sophie Tucker.-Background:Originally written and composed by Shelton Brooks for the “Last of the Red-Hot Mamas”, "Some of These Days" became a signature song for Sophie Tucker, who made the first of her several recordings of...
". Sergeant Bruce enters the cafè and he begins to pay attention to Marie's singing. Belle (Gilda Gray
Gilda Gray
Gilda Gray was a Polish born American actress and dancer who became famous in the US for popularizing a dance called the "shimmy" which became fashionable in 1920s films and theater productions....
), the usual cafè singer, is jealous and sings "Some of These Days" in her own sexy style. Marie cannot compete with Belle's physical interpretation and leaves the cafè.
Sergeant Bruce follows her and reassures her that she is a good singer. He has heard about the robbery and insists that she report the crime. He asks her name, and she calls herself Rose. He has recognized her voice, though, and marvels that he never knew such a famous opera singer's real name is 'Rose' Marie Le Flor. He asks why she has come to the mountains, and she tells him she is going to meet someone. Sergeant Bruce says they will surely find Boniface at the Indian
First Nations
First Nations is a term that collectively refers to various Aboriginal peoples in Canada who are neither Inuit nor Métis. There are currently over 630 recognised First Nations governments or bands spread across Canada, roughly half of which are in the provinces of Ontario and British Columbia. The...
ceremony that night. They row across the lake to the festival, and Sergeant Bruce asks what kind of man she is going to meet. Marie says he is an Italian tenor
Tenor
The tenor is a type of male singing voice and is the highest male voice within the modal register. The typical tenor voice lies between C3, the C one octave below middle C, to the A above middle C in choral music, and up to high C in solo work. The low extreme for tenors is roughly B2...
. Sergeant Bruce admits to not being Italian, but sings "Rose Marie" to her to prove he can sing. She tells him his composition is remarkable, and he begins a reprise, accidentally beginning "Oh, Caroline" instead of "Rose Marie". He admits that almost any girl's name can fit in his song, and he has sung it to many girls before.
Marie and the Sergeant watch the "Totem Tom-Tom" at the Indian festival. Sergeant Bruce questions the Indians about Jack Flower as Marie corners Boniface and threatens to turn him in to Sergeant Bruce unless he takes her to her brother. She arranges to set off with him in an hour.
Back at her hotel, Marie promises Sergeant Bruce to wait for him there until he is off-duty. Though Marie just hopes to get rid of him, she instead inspires him to sing "Just For You" at her window. Sergeant Bruce bids her goodbye and returns to headquarters, where he describes his new love to an old friend. He realizes that his Rose Marie's last name—de flor—is Flower in English, and realizes she must be related to Jack Flower. He returns to Marie's hotel to question her, but finds she is gone.
As Boniface and Marie travel on horseback, he gives her a map that leads to in his mother's house near Hayman's Landing where Jack is hiding. Marie, amused by the echoing cliffs, sings a round of "Three Blind Mice" with herself. Sergeant Bruce hears her from across the valley. Boniface and Marie come to a river and Marie insists on crossing it to save time even though she has never ridden across a river before. She is swept off her horse into the river, and Boniface tries to save her. Sergeant Bruce arrives, and Boniface runs into the forest from the Mountie as the Sergeant rescues her.
Marie haughtily refuses the Sergeant's help until nightfall, insisting Boniface will come back for her. When she realizes he will not return, she accepts the food he offers her and runs to his arms when a sound in the forest frightens her. Sergeant Bruce tells her an Indian legend of star-crossed
Star-crossed
"Star-crossed" or "star-crossed lovers" is a phrase describing a pair of lovers whose relationship is often thwarted by outside forces. The term encompasses other meanings, but originally means the pairing is being "thwarted by a malign star" or that the stars are working against the relationship...
lovers. Their spirits still inhabit that place, and when a lover gives their call, they echo it until it reaches the one he loves. Rose Marie sings the "Indian Love Call
Indian Love Call
"Indian Love Call" is a song from Rose-Marie, a 1924 operetta-style Broadway musical with music by Rudolf Friml and Herbert Stothart, and book and lyrics by Otto Harbach and Oscar Hammerstein II...
", and the Sergeant echos it. That night, the Sergeant tries to find Marie's map in her clothes hanging over the fire, but she keeps it with her inside the tent.
Marie cannot find a new guide until she reaches Hayman's Landing, so she and the Sergeant travel together for the next three days. On their last night travelling together, Marie asks him how he can dedicate his life to hunting down fugitives. She asks him to become a singer with her, and he declines. They admit that they love each other, singing "Indian Love Call" again, and she asks him to come if she ever calls him. He sharply returns to reality and they continue on their way. When they reach Hayman's Landing, he insists that she will not care about him when she returns to the city, and will see him as only a policeman.
Rose Marie finds Jack in the cabin and tries to persuade him to reform. She gives him the money necessary to start over, and he tells her he is considering moving to China
China
Chinese civilization may refer to:* China for more general discussion of the country.* Chinese culture* Greater China, the transnational community of ethnic Chinese.* History of China* Sinosphere, the area historically affected by Chinese culture...
. Sergeant Bruce appears with a gun and handcuffs Jack. Marie begs him to let her brother go, but the Sergeant is unmoved by her plee, even as she sings the "Indian Love Call". He takes Jack with him on horseback.
Marie is performing as an opera star again, this time playing the title role in the opera Tosca
Tosca
Tosca is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa. It premiered at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome on 14 January 1900...
opposite the same tenor who played Romèo. She keeps hearing "Indian Love Call" throughout the opera and collapses onstage. Marie retires to a mountain lodge and refuses to sing for six months. Her manager Myerson visits and tells her how disappointed he is not to hear her voice again. After he leaves, she begins "Indian Love Call". Myerson urges Sergeant Bruce, who had been hiding in the foyer, to join her, and they sing together.
Songs
- Overture: "Indian Love CallIndian Love Call"Indian Love Call" is a song from Rose-Marie, a 1924 operetta-style Broadway musical with music by Rudolf Friml and Herbert Stothart, and book and lyrics by Otto Harbach and Oscar Hammerstein II...
" and "Rose Marie" - Scenes from Romèo et Juliette (music by Charles Gounod, libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel Carréby)
- "Pardon Me, Madame"
- "The Mounties"
- "Dinah" (music by Harry Akst, lyrics by Sam Lewis and Joe Young)
- "Some of These DaysSome of These Days"Some of These Days" is a popular song published in 1910 associated with Sophie Tucker.-Background:Originally written and composed by Shelton Brooks for the “Last of the Red-Hot Mamas”, "Some of These Days" became a signature song for Sophie Tucker, who made the first of her several recordings of...
" (Shelton Brooks) - "Rose Marie"
- "Totem Tom-Tom"
- "Just For You"
- "Three Blind Mice"
- "Indian Love Call" (sung four times)
- Act III of ToscaToscaTosca is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa. It premiered at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome on 14 January 1900...
, from Tosca's entrance (music by Giacomo Puccini, libretto by Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica) - "Indian Love Call (reprise)"
Principal Cast
- Jeanette MacDonaldJeanette MacDonaldJeanette MacDonald was an American singer and actress best remembered for her musical films of the 1930s with Maurice Chevalier and Nelson Eddy...
...Marie de Flor - Nelson EddyNelson EddyNelson Ackerman Eddy was an American singer and actor who appeared in 19 musical films during the 1930s and 1940s, as well as in opera and on the concert stage, radio, television, and in nightclubs. A classically trained baritone, he is best remembered for the eight films in which he costarred...
...Sergeant Bruce - Reginald OwenReginald OwenJohn Reginald Owen was a British character actor. He was known for his many roles in British and American movies and later in television programs.-Personal:...
...Myerson - Allen JonesAllen JonesAllen Jones is the name of:*Allen T Jones ceo*Allen Jones , Continental Congress delegate*Allen Jones , British pop artist...
...Romèo and Mario Cavaradossi - James StewartJames Stewart (actor)James Maitland Stewart was an American film and stage actor, known for his distinctive voice and his everyman persona. Over the course of his career, he starred in many films widely considered classics and was nominated for five Academy Awards, winning one in competition and receiving one Lifetime...
...Jack Flower - Alan MowbrayAlan MowbrayAlan Mowbray MM, , was an English stage and film actor who found success in Hollywood.Born Alfred Ernest Allen in London, England, he served with distinction the British Army in World War I, being awarded the Military Medal for bravery...
...Premier of Quebec - George RegasGeorge RegasGeorge Regas was a Greek actor.Born in Sparta, Greece, he was the brother of actor Pedro Regas. He was a stage actor in Athens before coming to the U.S. In New York he played Romeo in a Grecian version of Romeo and Juliet.In 1921 Regas acted in his first motion picture: The Love Light with Mary...
...Boniface - Una O'ConnorUna O'ConnorUna O'Connor was an Irish actress who worked extensively in theatre before becoming a notable character actress in film.-Life and work:...
...Roderick - James Conlin...Joe, the pianist
- Gilda GrayGilda GrayGilda Gray was a Polish born American actress and dancer who became famous in the US for popularizing a dance called the "shimmy" which became fashionable in 1920s films and theater productions....
...Belle