Rose-Marie (1936)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Rose-Marie |
| Original title | Rose-Marie |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1936 |
| length | 113 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | WS Van Dyke |
| script |
Frances Goodrich , Albert Hackett , Alice Duer Miller |
| production |
Hunt Stromberg for MGM |
| music |
Rudolf Friml , Herbert Stothart |
| camera | William Daniels |
| cut | Blanche Sewell |
| occupation | |
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Rose-Marie is an American music film by WS Van Dyke from 1936. It is based on the operetta of the same name by Otto A. Harbach and Oscar Hammerstein II and was the second adaptation of the after the 1928 silent film Rose-Marie with Joan Crawford Substance.
action
The Canadian opera singer Marie de Flor is back in her home country after a long tour, where she appears and is celebrated in Gounod's Romeo et Juliette . In her private life, she is less happy because her brother John Flower is in prison for illegally possessing weapons. Once again, a request for a pardon was not approved and so Marie was about to turn to the Prime Minister when she was told by John's confidante Boniface that John had escaped from prison. He was hiding in the forests of Canada, but there he murdered a mounted police officer who tracked him down. Now John is a wanted murderer and wants to flee the country. Marie is supposed to send him money for it, but spontaneously decides to go to her brother.
She hopes to have found a trustworthy person in Boniface who will lead her to John, but he steals Marie's wallet during a stopover and disappears. After trying in vain to earn money by singing in a bar in order to be able to at least pay for the necessary equipment for the journey into the mountains, she meets the mounted Sergeant Bruce. He recognizes the famous singer and seems to believe her story that she is on the way to becoming an admirer. He himself is looking for John Flower, whom he is supposed to arrest. He accompanies her into the mountains for several days and they both get closer. After they parted ways - Marie tried in vain to dissuade him from his search - Marie finds John in a mountain hut. The joy of seeing each other is short-lived, as Bruce followed the singer and arrested John immediately. He knew all along that they were both related and that Marie would lead him to John. Although Marie begs Bruce to let her brother go, he does not give up and leads John away.
In the opera Marie appears in Puccini's Tosca . The emotional strain of the last few weeks has so overwhelmed her that she thinks she can hear Bruce sing on stage and then collapses. In a country house in the mountains, she tries to relax and believes that she will never be able to return to the stage. Her manager Myerson, however, notifies Bruce, who comes to the country house and promises her love. They both embrace.
production
After Tolle Marietta, the film was the second of a total of eight films together that the screen couple Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy made between 1935 and 1942. The song Indian Love Call , which is sung several times in the film, became a signature song for the duo. Adrian designed the costumes for the film .
The title of the film is derived from Marie's actual name. Her travel bag shows an R, so when Bruce asked for her name, she replied "Rose-Marie".
Rose-Marie contains numerous vocal interludes. The first scene shows excerpts from Charles Gounod's opera Roméo et Juliette , in which Jeanette MacDonald sings, among others. At the end of the film, Jeanette MacDonald sings parts of the finale of Giacomo Puccini's Tosca . Other titles including the operetta Rose-Marie , which are sung in the film, are:
- Dinah by Harry Akst (music) / Sam Lewis , Joe Young (text) - sung by Jeanette MacDonald
- Indian Love Call by Rudolf Friml / Oscar Hammerstein II - sung by Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald
- Just for You by Rudolf Friml, Herbert Stothart / Gus Kahn - sung by Nelson Eddy
- Pardon Me Madame by Herbert Stothart / Gus Kahn - sung by Jeanette MacDonald
- Rose Marie by Rudolf Friml / Oscar Hammerstein II, Otto A. Harbach - sung by Nelson Eddy
- Some of These Days by Shelton Brooks - sung by Jeanette MacDonald and Gilda Gray
- The Mounties by Rudolf Friml / Oscar Hammerstein II, Otto A. Harbach - sung by Neson Eddy
- Totem Tom-Tom by Rudolf Friml / Oscar Hammerstein II, Otto A. Harbach
criticism
Jonathan Coe wrote that James Stewart's "short ... scenes of contrition at the end of the film ... added a soothing touch of realism to the film", while Donald Dewey Stewart's role as a "poorly written ... role" and the film itself as a "confusing story" designated. The film service rated Rose-Marie as a "remarkable ... musical adaptation".
Web links
- Rose-Marie in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jonathan Coe: James Stewart. His films - his life . Heyne, Munich 1994, p. 24.
- ↑ Donald Dewey: James Stewart. A life for the film . Henschel, Berlin 1997, p. 98.
- ↑ Rose-Marie. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed January 25, 2017 .