Delicious (film)

Delicious
original film poster
Directed by	David Butler
Written by	Guy Bolton Sonya Levien
Starring	Janet Gaynor Charles Farrell Virginia Cherrill
Music by	George Gershwin
Cinematography	Ernest Palmer
Editing by	Irene Morra
Distributed by	Fox Film Corporation
Release date(s)	December 27, 1931 (US)
Running time	106 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Delicious (1931) is a Gershwin musical romantic comedy film starring Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell, directed by David Butler, with color sequences in Multicolor (now lost).

Production background

Janet Gaynor

The film features music by George and Ira Gershwin, including the introduction of "New York Rhapsody", later expanded into the Second Rhapsody by Gershwin, an imaginative and elaborate set piece. Gershwin also contributed other sequences for the score, but only a five-minute "Dream Sequence" and the six-minute "New York Rhapsody" made the final cut. Fox Film Corporation rejected the rest of the score.

Gaynor plays a Scottish girl emigrating by ship to America who runs afoul of the authorities and has to go on the run, falling in with a ragtag group of immigrant musicians in Manhattan. Gaynor and Farrell made almost a dozen films together, including Frank Borzage's classics Seventh Heaven (1927), Street Angel (1928), and Lucky Star (1929). Gaynor won the first Academy Award for Best Actress for the first two and F. W. Murnau's Sunrise.

Cast

Janet Gaynor as Heather Gordon Charles Farrell as Larry Beaumont El Brendel as Chris Jansen Raul Roulien as Sascha Lawrence O'Sullivan as Detective O'Flynn Manya Roberti as Olga Olive Tell as Mrs. Van Bergh Virginia Cherrill as Diana Van Bergh Mischa Auer as Mischa Marvine Maazel as Toscha

Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell in Delicious

Preservation status

On December 14, 2011, Turner Classic Movies aired a print of the film restored by George Eastman House.

See also

• List of early color feature films

External links

• Delicious at the Internet Movie Database
• Delicious at TCM Movie Database
• Delicious at AllRovi