The Sun Comes Up

The Sun Comes Up (1949)

A grand threesome who will win your heart!

Set in the rural south of the United States, a bereaved war widow learns to put aside her bitterness and grief as she grows to love a young orphan boy and his dog.

Date of release
1949-05-12
TMDB
6.2 / 10 (6)
Runtime
1h 33m
Genres
Action, Family, Drama, Adventure
Director
Richard Thorpe
Collection
Lassie Collection

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Filmed in: California

The Sun Comes Up is a 1949 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Technicolor drama picture with Lassie. Jeanette MacDonald had been off the screen for five years until her return in Three Daring Daughters (1948), but The Sun Comes Up was to be her last. In it, she had to share the screen not with an up-and-coming younger actress but with a very popular animal star. Although her retreat from a film career can be blamed largely on an increasingly debilitating heart ailment, MacDonald continued to make concert and TV appearances after this. Her last radio performance was a broadcast version of this same story on The Screen Guild Theater in March 1950.

Production

Parts of The Sun Comes Up were filmed in Glenwood, California, and lumber from the set was used to build the last town post office.

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