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Rose-Marie
MGM Pictures
Released: February 1, 1936
Runtime: 113 minutes
In one of his few opportunities to sing opera in film, Allan gets to play a tenor during two short sequences of “Romeo et Juliette” and “Tosca.” Even though his clips are brief, his fabulous voice makes you beg for more.
In the opening scene, Allan is Romeo and sings an exerpt from “Romeo entrance recitative” with a baritone playing Mercutio. Then, he joins Jeanette Macdonald in the “Act V death scene.”
At the end of the film, he is Mario and sings with Jeannette Macdonald in an excerpt from the “Tosca, Act III” scene.
Marie de Flor is a famous opera singer living the high life until she hears that her brother, John Flower, is in danger of being arrested and receiving the death penalty for assaulting a mounted policeman. Fearing for her brother’s life, she quickly makes a trip to the Canadian mountains to find him in his hideout. However, she encounters a conflict when mounted policeman, Sgt. Bruce is assigned the case of finding John, and immediately suspects Marie of trying to help him. He offers to help her make her way through the wilderness, hoping to find the hideout. All the while, Marie is hoping that she can cover up her real intentions. The real problem erupts when the two fall in love and Marie must see Sgt. Bruce do his duty and arrest her brother. Marie goes back to work and tries to move on but she suffers a nervous breakdown during her next performance and must take a vacation. There, Sgt. Bruce meets with her, unable to forget the love they shared in the mountains. They embrace with a reprise of “Indian Love Call,” and finish with a kiss.
Credits
Directed…W.S. Van Dyke
Writers…Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett, Oscar Hammerstein II (operetta), Otto A. Harbach (operetta), Alice D.G. Miller, Herbert Stothart (operetta)
Producer…Hunt Stromberg
Cinematography…William H. Daniels
Film Editing…Blanche Sewell
Art Direction…Cedric Gibbons, Edwin B. Willis, Joseph C. Wright
Sound Department…William Edmondson (boom operator), Douglas Shearer (sound)
Music Department…Herbert Stothart (musical director), Paul Lamkoff (vocal coach) (uncredited)
Costumes…Adrian
Assistant Director…Joseph M. Newman
Stunts…Audrey Scott (riding double: Jeanette Macdonald) (uncredited)
Choreographers…Chester Hale, William von Wymetal
Original Music…Herbert Stothart (uncredited)
Cast
Jeanette Macdonald…Marie de Flor
Nelson Eddy…Sgt. Bruce
Reginald Owen…Myerson
Allan Jones…Tenor in “Romeo et Juliette” and “Tosca”
James Stewart…John Flower
Alan Mowbray…Premier
Gilda Gray…Bella
George Regas…Boniface
Robert Greig…Café manager
Una O’ Connor…Anna
Lucien Littlefield…Storekeeper
Herman Bing…Mr. Daniells
David Niven…Teddy
Soundtrack
• “Pardon Me Madame”
o Sung by Jeanette Macdonald and Chorus
o Music: Herbert Stothart
o Lyrics: Gus Kahn
• “Indian Love Call”
o Sung by Nelson Eddy as a solo, sung by Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald as a duet, sung by Jeanette MacDonald briefly as a solo, Reprised by Nelson Eddy as a memory, Reprised by both as a duet at end scene
o Music: Rudolf Friml
o Lyrics: Oscar Hammerstein II
• “Rose-Marie”
o Sung by Nelson Eddy
o Music: Rudolf Friml
o Lyrics: Oscar Hammerstein II, Otto Harbach
• “Just for You”
o Sung by Nelson Eddy
o Written by Rudolf Friml
• “The Mounties”
o Sung by Nelson Eddy and Chorus
o Music: Rudolf Friml, Herbert Stothart
o Lyrics: Oscar Hammerstein II, Otto Harbach
• “Totem Tom Tom”
o Sung/danced by Chorus
o Music: Rudolf Friml, Herbert Stothart
o Lyrics: Oscar Hammerstein II, Otto Harbach
• “Some of These Days”
o Sung by Gilda Gray and Jeanette Macdonald
o Written by Shelton Brooks
• “Dinah”
o Sung by Jeanette Macdonald
o Music: Harry Akst
o Lyrics: Sam Lewis, Joe Young
• “Three Blind Mice”
o Sung by Jeanette Macdonald
o Traditional
• Excerpts from opera “Romeo et Juliett” (Act I, Romeo entrance recitative, “Je veux vivre dans ce reve,” Act III, Act IV with Friar Lawrence, Act V death scene)
o Sung by Jeanette Macdonald, Allan Jones, Chorus
o Music by Charles Gounod
• Opera “Tosca” Act III
o Sung by Jeanette MacDonald, Allan Jones
o Music by Giacomo Puccini