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Director:
Gregory Ratoff
Writers:
Jerry Horwin (story)
Nunnally Johnson (writer)
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Release Date:
5 May 1939 (USA) more
Genre:
Drama | Musical more
Plot:
New York city in the 1920s: a singer struggles to keep her boyfriend from trouble. When she makes it to Ziegfeld... more | add synopsis
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User Comments:
A great musical; Faye and Jolson are in great voice. more (9 total)

Cast

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Tyrone Power ... Barton DeWitt Clinton
Alice Faye ... Rose Sargent

Al Jolson ... Ted Cotter
William Frawley ... Harry Long
Joyce Compton ... Peggy
Hobart Cavanaugh ... Whitey Boone
Moroni Olsen ... Major Buck Russell
E.E. Clive ... Barouche driver

Louis Prima ... Bandleader
Charles C. Wilson ... Detective Mike Cavanaugh
Ben Welden ... Toby (Hood)
Horace McMahon ... Irving
Paul Stanton ... District attorney
Harry Hayden ... Dexter
John Hamilton ... Judge
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Runtime:
86 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Black and White
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono
Company:
Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation more

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The pairing of Louis Prima and Alice Faye in Rose of Washington Square (1939) has a unique connection to Walt Disneys The Jungle Book (1967) since the former played the orangutan King Louie and the latter was the wife of Phil Harris who played Baloo the bear and together they sang "I Wan'na Be Like You". more
Movie Connections:
Featured in Hidden Hollywood: Treasures from the 20th Century Fox Film Vaults (1997) (TV) more
Soundtrack:
Toot, Toot, Tootsie (Goo' Bye!) more

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6 out of 7 people found the following comment useful.
A great musical; Faye and Jolson are in great voice., 19 December 1998
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Author: none-85 from Bethesda, MD

Very entertaining- a thinly disguised bio-pic of Fanny Brice. Power and Faye- at their acting peaks- are great as the leads. Faye is in great voice. However, Jolson steals the movie. At the age of 54, he was in the best voice of his career. His Rock- a Bye and California Here I Come are thrilling. I own the video, which also contains clips of several Jolson and Faye songs which were edited out of the final movie. a must for fans of the three stars.

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