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Rose Marie

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1hr 55min
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1954
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Synopsis: 1954's Rose Marie is the third film version of the 1924 Otto Harbach-Oscar Hammerstein-Rudolph Frinl operetta of the same name. Though not a completely faithful adaptation, this version is closer to the original than the (admittedly enjoyable) Nelson Eddy-Jeanette MacDonald version of 1936. Ann Blyth stars as Rose Marie Lemaitre, a hoydenish French-Canadian lass who is "tamed" by cheerful mountie Mike Malone (Howard Keel). At first, Mike is only interested in using Rose Marie to capture her sweetheart, ... Full Synopsis
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The mere mention of "operetta" is enough to send some viewers into fits of giggling and snorting, and with Rose Marie it's not really hard to see why. The story is so much nonsense, the serious dialogue is stilted, there's a general sense of the overblown throughout, and when these people burst into song, they really burst into song. This semi-remake of the 1936 version also suffers because Ann Blyth ... Full Review
Featured Cast
Rose Marie Lemaitre
Mike Malone
James Severn Duval
Barney McGorkle
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