Product Details

• Actors: Anna Neagle, Ray Bolger, John Carroll
• Format: NTSC
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Number of discs: 1
• Studio: RCF
• DVD Release Date: December 9, 2008
• Run Time: 81 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• ASIN: B001NFNSPU
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #354,513 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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3.0 out of 5 stars Who? Sunny, of course!, November 12, 2010

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This review is from: Sunny (1941) (DVD)

All Editorial Review Product Descriptions for RCE's red box discs are a c&p text that includes their "100 greatest classic films of all time" blurb. These mostly obscure works are hardly as advertised. Also, picture and sound quality depend on condition of unrestored source material. Good to fair is about average.


The musical comedy SUNNY (1941) is set in New Orleans during the final hours of Mardi Gras. This second remake of the stageplay (with music by Jerome Kern and libretto by Oscar Hammerstein II and Otto Harbach) stars Anna Neagle, John Carroll, Ray Bolger (in his first film since THE WIZARD OF OZ) and Edward Everett Horton.

The original 1925 Broadway version (Kern's first collaboration with Hammerstein) which ran for 517 performances was his follow-up to "Sally." The Broadway cast included Marilyn Miller, Clifton Webb, Cliff Edwards (aka Ukulele Ike and Jiminy Cricket) and Pert Kelton (Marian's Irish mother in Meredith Willson's THE MUSIC MAN).

The play's best-remembered song is "Who" (stole my heart away, who etc.)

A most amusing sequence in this rather dated film is Edward Horton's several attempts to get an officious waiter to serve him a bowl of turtle soup. Each time, a plate of breaded oysters on the half shell arrives, much to Horton's frustration.