Chasing Rainbows | |
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Directed by | Charles Reisner |
Written by |
Al Boasberg Wells Root Kenyon Nicholson Charles Reisner |
Based on | Road Show by Robert E. Hopkins Bess Meredyth |
Starring |
Bessie Love Charles King |
Cinematography | Ira H. Morgan |
Edited by | George Hively |
Music by |
Milton Ager Jack Yellen |
Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
Release date |
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Running time | 106 minutes (complete but lost)
[1] 90 minutes (extant) 85 minutes (TCM print) |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Box office | $700,000 [2] (equivalent to $12,800,000 in 2023) |
Chasing Rainbows (also known as The Road Show) [3] is a 1930 American Pre-Code romantic musical film directed by Charles Reisner, and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
The film reunites The Broadway Melody stars Bessie Love and Charles King, with a supporting cast of Jack Benny, Marie Dressler, and Polly Moran. [4] This was Jack Benny's first dramatic role in a motion picture.
Filmed in July and August 1929, it was not released for months later, missing an opportunity to capitalize on the success of its song " Happy Days Are Here Again", which by then had already been a major hit. [2]
Carlie (Love) and Terry (King) are in a traveling vaudeville troupe with Eddie (Benny), the stage manager; Bonnie (Dressler), a comedian; and Polly (Moran), the wardrobe mistress. Terry constantly falls in love with his leading ladies, and marries Daphne (Martan), a two-timing songstress. When he finds her with another man, Terry threatens to kill himself, but Carlie reassures him that "Happy Days Are Here Again," and the show goes on. [1] [5]
The film was commercially successful, [2] but not as much as expected. [7]
Love, Dressler, and Benny all received positive reviews for their performances. [1] [5]
Chasing Rainbows was mostly filmed in black and white, but had two sequences shot in Technicolor. The film survives, but the color scenes are lost, having been removed for a re-release in 1931 and were destroyed in the 1965 MGM vault fire. The audio from the missing technicolor scenes still exists on Vitaphone disks, including "Happy Days Are Here Again". [8]
The film has been issued on DVD in the Warner Archive Collection.
Chasing Rainbows | |
---|---|
Directed by | Charles Reisner |
Written by |
Al Boasberg Wells Root Kenyon Nicholson Charles Reisner |
Based on | Road Show by Robert E. Hopkins Bess Meredyth |
Starring |
Bessie Love Charles King |
Cinematography | Ira H. Morgan |
Edited by | George Hively |
Music by |
Milton Ager Jack Yellen |
Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
Release date |
|
Running time | 106 minutes (complete but lost)
[1] 90 minutes (extant) 85 minutes (TCM print) |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Box office | $700,000 [2] (equivalent to $12,800,000 in 2023) |
Chasing Rainbows (also known as The Road Show) [3] is a 1930 American Pre-Code romantic musical film directed by Charles Reisner, and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
The film reunites The Broadway Melody stars Bessie Love and Charles King, with a supporting cast of Jack Benny, Marie Dressler, and Polly Moran. [4] This was Jack Benny's first dramatic role in a motion picture.
Filmed in July and August 1929, it was not released for months later, missing an opportunity to capitalize on the success of its song " Happy Days Are Here Again", which by then had already been a major hit. [2]
Carlie (Love) and Terry (King) are in a traveling vaudeville troupe with Eddie (Benny), the stage manager; Bonnie (Dressler), a comedian; and Polly (Moran), the wardrobe mistress. Terry constantly falls in love with his leading ladies, and marries Daphne (Martan), a two-timing songstress. When he finds her with another man, Terry threatens to kill himself, but Carlie reassures him that "Happy Days Are Here Again," and the show goes on. [1] [5]
The film was commercially successful, [2] but not as much as expected. [7]
Love, Dressler, and Benny all received positive reviews for their performances. [1] [5]
Chasing Rainbows was mostly filmed in black and white, but had two sequences shot in Technicolor. The film survives, but the color scenes are lost, having been removed for a re-release in 1931 and were destroyed in the 1965 MGM vault fire. The audio from the missing technicolor scenes still exists on Vitaphone disks, including "Happy Days Are Here Again". [8]
The film has been issued on DVD in the Warner Archive Collection.