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Sunny
Sunny

Sunny (1941)

55% User Rating
1h 38min
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A circus performer who falls in love with a rich car dealer's son, against her family's wishes. Features some spirited dance numbers with Ray Bolger.

Herbert WilcoxDirector

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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

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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

Martha Tilton

Martha Tilton

Queen of Hearts

Torben Meyer

Torben Meyer

Jean

Bess Flowers

Bess Flowers

Mrs. W. Wakefield

Halliwell Hobbes

Halliwell Hobbes

Johnson

Edna Holland

Edna Holland

Venus

Bert Moorhouse

Bert Moorhouse

Mr. Julian Duprez

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Edmund Mortimer

Mr. Runnymeade

Larry Steers

Larry Steers

Dr. Warren

Florence Wix

Florence Wix

Mrs. H. Warren

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Ernestine Clark

Acrobat

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James Carlisle

Mr. W. Wakefield (uncredited)

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Willa Pearl Curtis

Woman at Chicken Shack (uncredited)

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Earl Clyde

Stilt Walker (uncredited)

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Peggy Remington

Mrs. Runnymeade (uncredited)

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Rating 60%

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 formulaic story. It's really only got the two notable songs - and these "Sunny" and "Who" - written by Oscar Hammerstein II , Otto Harbach & Jerome Kern appear in various refrains as the story trundles along to it's predestined conclusion. It's too long and is probably not a film you will ever recall watching. Indeed, I doubt those who made it would have recalled it for long either - but it does showcase the considerable versatility of the star and for that, is just about worth a watch.

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