Chasing Rainbows (1930 film)

Chasing Rainbows
Theatrical release poster
Directed byCharles Reisner
Written byAl Boasberg
Wells Root
Kenyon Nicholson
Charles Reisner
Based onRoad Show
by Robert E. Hopkins
Bess Meredyth
StarringBessie Love
Charles King
CinematographyIra H. Morgan
Edited byGeorge Hively
Music byMilton Ager
Jack Yellen
Distributed byMetro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date
  • February 23, 1930 (1930-02-23) (U.S.)
Running time
106 minutes (complete but lost)[1]
90 minutes (extant)
85 minutes (TCM print)
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
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]

Plot

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]

Cast

Reception

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]

Preservation status

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.

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c "Chasing Rainbows". The Film Daily. 1930. p. 9.
  2. ^ a b c Bradley, Edwin M. (August 11, 2004). "There's a Tear for Every Smile in Hollywood". The First Hollywood Musicals: A Critical Filmography of 171 Features, 1927 through 1932. McFarland. p. 213. ISBN 978-0-7864-2029-2.
  3. ^ "New M-G-M Release Schedule". Hollywood Filmograph. June 22, 1929. p. 23.
  4. ^ Hall, Mordaunt (February 22, 1930). "Movie Review: Chasing Rainbows (1929)". The New York Times. Retrieved September 11, 2014.
  5. ^ a b Lusk, Norbert (June 1930). "The Screen in Review". Picture Play. pp. 64–5.
  6. ^ Dickstein, Martin (February 24, 1930). "The Cinema Circuit". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. Brooklyn. Retrieved June 6, 2014.
  7. ^ "W.B. Hollywood Does Top Figure for Current Year". Inside Facts of Stage and Screen. April 5, 1930. p. 3.
  8. ^ "Chasing Rainbows (1930)". Turner Classic Movies. Retrieved September 14, 2014.


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