Rose Marie (1954 film)

Rose Marie is a 1954 musical adaptation of the 1924 operetta of the same name, the third by MGM, following a 1928 silent movie and the bestknown of the three, the 1936 Jeanette MacDonaldNelson Eddy version. It is directed by Mervyn LeRoy and stars Ann Blyth, Howard Keel and Fernando Lamas. This version is filmed in the Canadian Rockies in CinemaScope. It was MGMs first film in the new widescreen medium and the first movie musical of any studio to be released in this format.

Onlynumbers are retained Rose Marie, Indian Love Call, and The Mounties. Five new songs were written for the film The Right Place For A Girl, Free To Be Free, The Mountie Who Never Got His Man, I Have The Love, and Love And Kisses. The latter was filmed, but deleted from the release print it is included on the DVD version of the film. An Indian totem dance with choreography by Busby Berkeley his last takes the place of the original number Totem Tom Tom. This new number does not make use of that songs music or lyric, despite a claim on the DVD cover.According to MGM records the film earned 2,835,000 in the US and Canada and 2,442,000 elsewhere, resulting in a loss of 284,000. ........

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