Sunny / First National Pictures present ; book & lyrics by Otto Harbach & Oscar Hammerstein, 2nd ; music by Jerome Kern ; a William A. Seiter production ; screen adaptation by Humphrey Pearson & Henry McCarty ; directed by William A. Seiter.
Publisher:
Turner Entertainment,
Copyright Date:
2009
Description:
1 videodisc (78 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Marilyn Miller (Sunny); Lawrence Gray (Tom Warren); Joe Donahue (Jim Deming); Mackenzie Ward (Wendell-Wendell); O.P. Heggie (Peters); Inez Courtney (Weenie); Barbara Bedford (Margaret); Judith Vosselli (Sue); Clyde Cook (Sam); Harry Allen (Barker); William Davidson (first officer); Ben Hendricks, Jr. (second officer). Title from disc label. Based on the play Sunny, book and lyrics by Otto Harbach and Oscar Hammerstein II, music by Jerome Kern, which opened in New York on September 22, 1925. Originally produced as a motion picture in 1930. "A First National, Vitaphone talking & walking picture." "This disc is expected to play back in DVD video "play only" devices, and may not play back in other DVD devices, including recorders and PC drives"--Container
Summary:
"Sunny, a circus performer pledged by her father to marry an Englishman (Wendell-Wendell) she does not love, becomes a stowaway on an ocean liner to America, along with her father, Peters. Sunny is obliged to act as dancer and entertainer to pay her passage, while her father is put to swabbing decks. Aboard is Tom Warren, the man she loves; but he is engaged to [socialite Margaret]. In order to be near him and to enter the United States without a passport, she marries his best friend, Jim Deming, in name only, planning to divorce him soon after landing. Meanwhile Jim establishes a popular gymnasium resort but is put in a difficult position when his former fianceĢe, Weenie, and Wendell-Wendell arrive from England. When [Margaret] hears Sunny tell Tom that she knows he loves her, [Margaret] declares that their engagement will be announced at the hunt ball that very night. At the ball, Sunny announces her plans to return to England, but Tom proposes just as she is about to leave"--AFI catalog, 1921-1930.
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