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Chasing Rainbows (also known as The Road Show) is a 1930 American Pre-Code romantic musical film directed by Charles Reisner, and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
The film reunites The Broadway Melody stars Bessie Love and Charles King, with a supporting cast of Jack Benny, Marie Dressler, and Polly Moran. This was Jack Benny's first dramatic role in a motion picture.
Filmed in July and August 1929, it was not released for months later, missing an opportunity to capitalize on the success of its song "Happy Days Are Here Again", which by then had already been a major hit.




Plot


Carlie (Love) and Terry (King) are in a traveling vaudeville troupe with Eddie (Benny), the stage manager; Bonnie (Dressler), a comedian; and Polly (Moran), the wardrobe mistress. Terry constantly falls in love with his leading ladies, and marries Daphne (Martan), a two-timing songstress. When he finds her with another man, Terry threatens to kill himself, but Carlie reassures him that "Happy Days Are Here Again," and the show goes on.




Cast






Reception


The film was commercially successful, but not as much as expected.
Love, Dressler, and Benny all received positive reviews for their performances.




Preservation status


Chasing Rainbows was mostly filmed in black and white, but had two sequences shot in Technicolor. The film survives, but the color scenes are lost, having been removed for a re-release in 1931 and were destroyed in the 1965 MGM vault fire. The audio from the missing technicolor scenes still exists on Vitaphone disks, including "Happy Days Are Here Again".
The film has been issued on DVD in the Warner Archive Collection.




See also


List of American films of 1930
List of early color feature films




References






External links


Chasing Rainbows at IMDb
Chasing Rainbows at AllMovie
Chasing Rainbows at the TCM Movie Database
Chasing Rainbows at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films
Surviving Vitaphone soundtrack for lost reels 10 & 11 at SoundCloud

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