Springtime in the Rockies
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| Directed by | Irving Cummings |
| Produced by | William LeBaron |
| Written by | Walter Bullock Ken Englund Jacques Thery Philip Wylie |
| Starring | Betty Grable John Payne Carmen Miranda Cesar Romero |
| Music by | Alfred Newman |
| Cinematography | Ernest Palmer |
| Editing by | Robert L. Simpson |
| Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
| Release date(s) | November 6, 1942 |
| Running time | 91 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Springtime in the Rockies is a Technicolor musical comedy film released by Twentieth Century Fox in 1942. A Betty Grable vehicle, with support from John Payne, Carmen Miranda, Cesar Romero, Charlotte Greenwood, and Edward Everett Horton. Also in the cast was Grable's future husband Harry James, and his band. The director was Irving Cummings.
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[edit] Plot
Vicky Lane and Dan Christy get into an argument about Dan's womanizing and go separate ways. A jealous Vicky becomes involved with her old dance partner and ex-lover Victor Price. Dan's career declines after that and he misses Vicky, so he follows her to a hotel in the Canadian Rockies where she and Victor are opening a new show together. Dan goes on a boozy bender and wakes up the next morning to find that he has somehow hired a Latin secretary named Rosita Murphy. This leads Vicky to think that Dan is up to his old womanizing habits again.
[edit] Cast
- Betty Grable as Vicky Lane
- John Payne as Dan Christy
- Carmen Miranda as Rosita Murphy
- Cesar Romero as Victor Price
- Charlotte Greenwood as Phoebe Gray
- Edward Everett Horton as McTavish
- Harry James as Himself
- Jackie Gleason as Commissioner
[edit] Background
Springtime in the Rockies was a big hit for Grable and for Fox as it was among the top ten most successful films at the box office in 1942.
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