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Initial release 10 January 1930 (USA) | 6.7/10 IMDb Music director William Axt | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Written by Al BoasbergWells RootKenyon NicholsonCharles Reisner Based on Road Showby Robert E. HopkinsBess Meredyth Starring Bessie LoveCharles King Music by Milton AgerJack Yellen Cast Similar Jack Benny movies, Musicals, Movies about marriage | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chasing Rainbows is a 1930 American Pre-Code romantic musical film directed by Charles Reisner, starring Bessie Love and Charles King, and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The supporting cast features Jack Benny, Marie Dressler, and Polly Moran. This was Jack Benny's first dramatic role in a motion picture.
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The movie introduced the song "Happy Days Are Here Again".
Plot summary
Carlie and Terry constitute a vaudeville team in a traveling musical show; also in the company are Eddie, the stage manager; Bonnie, a comedian; and Polly, the wardrobe mistress. Terry's habit of constantly falling in love with the leading lady causes him to marry Daphne, a two-timing songstress. When he finds her with another man, Eddie threatens to kill himself, but his little partner reassures him that "Happy Days Are Here Again," and the show goes on.
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Film preservation
Chasing Rainbows was mostly filmed in black and white, but had two Technicolor sequences. Today those sequences are lost (originally removed for a 1931 re-release and destroyed in the Vault 7 fire), but the rest of the movie survives. It has been issued on DVD in the Warner Archive Collection. The lost sequences, with only the sound still existent on Vitaphone disks, include the "Happy Days Are Here Again" performance.