Rose of Washington Square (1939)
1939 · Feature film · 86 min · dir. Gregory Ratoff
SONG BY SONG...SCENE BY SCENE THE THRILL GROWS GREATER! THE STARS OF "IN OLD CHICAGO" AND "ALEXANDER'S RAGTIME BAND" BRING YOU THEIR BIG 1939 HIT!
- Drama
- Music
Synopsis
Rose Sargent, a Roaring '20s singer, becomes a Ziegfeld Follies star as her criminal husband gets deeper in trouble.
Synopsis from TMDb
Details
- Director
- Gregory Ratoff
- Writer
- Jerry Horwin
- Cinematography
- Karl Freund
- Studio
- 20th Century Fox
- Released
- 1939-05-05
- Running time
- 86 minutes
Cast & crew
Gregory Ratoff Director
Tyrone Power
Alice Faye
Al Jolson
William Frawley
Joyce Compton
Hobart Cavanaugh
Moroni Olsen
E. E. Clive
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★★★ · Al Jolson and Ms Brice · REHgreyson · 2024-09-27
Apparently, the plot of the film was so similar to the events of the life of Ms Brice that she took offence (she hadn’t been asked) and sued 20th Century Fox, Mr Power and Ms Faye (for their representation of Fanny’s former husband and herself) — for $750 000, according to the Ottawa Citizen of 15 July 1939. She also sued Mr Jolson (just because he was there — she never liked him; in her early days on the stage, his show stopping often stopped her going on at all). For his part in the film, Al was only getting $6000 a week, and the occasional smile from Ms Faye — not enough in his view…
