Sweet Adeline (1934)
In 1898, composer Sid Barnett manages to get his sweetheart, Adeline the beer-garden singer, to sing the lead in his new Broadway operetta; this infuriates Elysia, the erstwhile star. But Sid frets as Adeline spends increasing amounts of time with the dashing Major Day.
- Date of release
- 1934-12-29
- TMDB
- 6.8 / 10 (4)
- Runtime
- 1h 27m
- Genres
- Romance, Music
- Director
- Mervyn LeRoy
Casting
- Irene Dunne — Adeline 'Addie' Schmidt
- Donald Woods — Sid Barnett
- Hugh Herbert — Rupert Rockingham
- Ned Sparks — Dan Herzig
- Joseph Cawthorn — Oscar Schmidt
- Wini Shaw — Elysia
- Louis Calhern — Major Jim Day
- Nydia Westman — Nellie
- Dorothy Dare — Dot
- Phil Regan — Michael
- Melba Snowden — Chorus Girl
Interesting facts
Sweet Adeline is a 1934 musical film adaptation of the 1929 Jerome Kern/Oscar Hammerstein II Broadway play of the same title. It stars Irene Dunne and Donald Woods and was directed by Mervyn LeRoy.
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