Copyright 3 March 1954 by Loew's Inc. A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer picture. New York opening at the Radio City Music Hall: 1 April 1954 (ran five weeks). Los Angeles opening: 2 March 1954. U.K. release: 20 September 1954. Australian release: 14 June 1954. 104 minutes.
SYNOPSIS: The beautiful daughter of an Indian chief (Yowlachie) is madly in love with a trapper (Lamas). The trapper is also loved by "a waif of the forest" (Blyth). Anyway, the trapper is arrested for murder by a Mountie (Keel), even though the Mountie is unsure of the trapper's guilt.
NOTES: The Rudolf Friml musical was previously filmed by M-G-M in 1928 with Joan Crawford and in 1936 with Nelson Eddy, Jeanette MacDonald, and James Stewart.
It was widely rumored around Hollywood in 1954 that Ann Blyth's singing voice had "gone" and that she was dubbed in "Rose Marie". Certainly it does not seem like the same voice we heard in her first movie, "Chip Off the Old Block" (1944). In fact, being the bold young man I was in 1955, I actually asked Miss Blyth if she had done her own singing in "Rose Marie". She did not reply, so the mystery remains. Except for one little fact: In "One Minute to Zero" (1952), Ann joins Robert Mitchum in singing "Tell Me, Golden Moon". Her singing voice, to say the least, is weak and strained. Now it could well be that she had deliberately disguised her voice for that movie (it's also an outside chance that she was dubbed in "One Minute to Zero"), but there is no doubt that this episode sparked the rumor that her voice had gone.
COMMENT: Although it was compared unfavorably with the previous Jeanette MacDonald version by both fans and critics, this was nonetheless a great commercial success – thanks mostly to the novelty of CinemaScope. It also featured a thrilling production number staged by Busby Berkeley on – alas! – an extremely obvious studio stage. Unfortunately, Mervyn LeRoy, content to let CinemaScope do all the work, directed the remainder of the film in a somewhat plodding fashion.
OTHER VIEWS: The dialogue is long, the plot is ponderous. - Bosley Crowther.
A second-rate production Howard Keel was the only one in it who could sing. - Powell Findon.
SYNOPSIS: The beautiful daughter of an Indian chief (Yowlachie) is madly in love with a trapper (Lamas). The trapper is also loved by "a waif of the forest" (Blyth). Anyway, the trapper is arrested for murder by a Mountie (Keel), even though the Mountie is unsure of the trapper's guilt.
NOTES: The Rudolf Friml musical was previously filmed by M-G-M in 1928 with Joan Crawford and in 1936 with Nelson Eddy, Jeanette MacDonald, and James Stewart.
It was widely rumored around Hollywood in 1954 that Ann Blyth's singing voice had "gone" and that she was dubbed in "Rose Marie". Certainly it does not seem like the same voice we heard in her first movie, "Chip Off the Old Block" (1944). In fact, being the bold young man I was in 1955, I actually asked Miss Blyth if she had done her own singing in "Rose Marie". She did not reply, so the mystery remains. Except for one little fact: In "One Minute to Zero" (1952), Ann joins Robert Mitchum in singing "Tell Me, Golden Moon". Her singing voice, to say the least, is weak and strained. Now it could well be that she had deliberately disguised her voice for that movie (it's also an outside chance that she was dubbed in "One Minute to Zero"), but there is no doubt that this episode sparked the rumor that her voice had gone.
COMMENT: Although it was compared unfavorably with the previous Jeanette MacDonald version by both fans and critics, this was nonetheless a great commercial success – thanks mostly to the novelty of CinemaScope. It also featured a thrilling production number staged by Busby Berkeley on – alas! – an extremely obvious studio stage. Unfortunately, Mervyn LeRoy, content to let CinemaScope do all the work, directed the remainder of the film in a somewhat plodding fashion.
OTHER VIEWS: The dialogue is long, the plot is ponderous. - Bosley Crowther.
A second-rate production Howard Keel was the only one in it who could sing. - Powell Findon.