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Sunny (1941)

05/30/1941 Music 1h 38m
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Score
5.4/10

Overview

Sunny is a 1941 film American film directed by Herbert Wilcox. It was adapted by Sig Herzig from the Jerome Kern-Oscar Hammerstein II musical play Sunny. It stars Anna Neagle, Ray Bolger, John Carroll, Edward Everett Horton, Grace Hartman, Paul Hartman, Frieda Inescort, and Helen Westley.

Sig Herzig

Screenplay

Herbert Wilcox

Director

Top Billed Cast

Anna Neagle

Anna Neagle

Sunny O'Sullivan

Ray Bolger

Ray Bolger

Bunny Billings

John Carroll

John Carroll

Larry Warren

Edward Everett Horton

Edward Everett Horton

Henry Bates

Grace Hartman

Grace Hartman

Juliet Runnymede

Paul Hartman

Paul Hartman

Egghead

Frieda Inescort

Frieda Inescort

Elizabeth Warren

Helen Westley

Helen Westley

Aunt Barbara

Benny Rubin

Benny Rubin

Maj. Montgomery Sloan

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf

Written on February 28, 2023

I wasn't quite sure about the casting of Anna Neagle in the early WWII remake of the 1930 song and dance romance, but she does ok. She's the eponymous circus star who falls hook, line and sinker for "Larry" (John Carroll). He's from nouveau riche (car-dealership) stock, and his family had far greater aspirations for their son than this big-top performer. Their relationship is not helped by the fact that her fellow artistes don't take to him much either, and so we embark on a rather routine all-singing and dancing, light-hearted and uncomplicated, "can the guy get the gal" exercise. Like so many stage actors of her day, Neagle was a better than competent dancer, a useful singer and is very much at ease here - if completely unchallenged by the rather unremarkable writing and the somewhat for...

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