Springtime in the Rockies

Springtime in the Rockies (1942)

THE ROMANTIC MUSICAL THAT WILL WRAP ITSELF AROUND YOUR HEART!

Broadway partners Vicky Lane and Dan Christy have a tiff over Christy's womanizing. Jealous Vicky takes up with her old flame and former dance partner, Victor Price, and Dan's career takes a nosedive. In hopes of rekindling their romance and getting Vicky back on the boards with him, Dan follows her to a ritzy resort in the Canadian Rockies, where she and Victor are about to open their new act. But things get complicated when Dan wakes after a bender to find that he's hired an outlandish Latin secretary, Rosita Murphy, which makes Vicky think he's just up to his old tricks again.

Date of release
1942-11-06
TMDB
6.9 / 10 (13)
Runtime
1h 31m
Genres
Romance, Comedy
Director
Irving Cummings

Casting

Interesting facts

Springtime in the Rockies is an American Technicolor musical comedy film released by Twentieth Century Fox in 1942. It stars Betty Grable, with support from John Payne, Carmen Miranda, Cesar Romero, Charlotte Greenwood, and Edward Everett Horton. Also appearing were Grable's future husband Harry James and his band. The director was Irving Cummings. The screenplay was based on the short story "Second Honeymoon" by Philip Wylie.

Production

Although Wylie's story was published as "Second Honeymoon", it was purchased by Twentieth Century-Fox under the title "Worship the Sun". An article published by The Hollywood Reporter noted that Frederick Jackson was working on the picture's script, but the extent of his contribution to the completed film has not been confirmed.

According to the Records of the Legal Department, also at UCLA, the studio paid $1,000 for a waiver from Villa Moret Inc., holders of the copyright to the song "When It's Springtime in the Rockies", for the use of the title. The legal records also reveal that Twentieth Century-Fox paid approximately $1,160 to Republic Pictures, which had prior claim on the title for use on a Roy Rogers picture.

According to a The Hollywood Reporter news item, the studio intended to shoot the picture on location at Lake Louise in Canada due to "defense regulations hindering exterior shooting in the Hollywood area". Only background shots were filmed in Canada, however. "I Had the Craziest Dream", which is sung by Harry James's band singer Helen Forrest in the film, became one of Betty Grable's signature songs.

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