Young Pretty

Young Pretty
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Gypsy Leader (as Duci deKerekjarto)
Singing Quartette (as 'Four Freshmen' Quartette)
Dorothy Cooper (screenplay) (story) Sidney Sheldon (screenplay)
Danielle Darrieux returned to Hollywood to make this film after several years in Europe. She plays a woman who left her family in the US to live in Europe. This is her first American film since The Rage of Paris (1938) .
Jim and Marie were legally married therefore the mother's name would have been on their daughter Elizabeth's birth certificate even despite the fact that Elizabeth was told that her mother died. Although Marie abandoned her marriage and her daughter; she did not change her name. It, therefore, doesn't seem plausible that the now grown-up Elizabeth would not know her mother's name and not become somewhat suspicious upon meeting Marie while in Paris. This story gap was not addressed in the film.
Paris (uncredited) Music by Nicholas Brodszky Lyrics by Sammy Cahn Sung by Jane Powell and Wendell Corey Later sung by Fernando Lamas Reprised by the cast at the end
I read a review that stated that this movie was filmed before Royal Wedding, but this isn't so. Royal Wedding, starring Fred Astaire, was filmed before this movie and it was Royal Wedding which made Jane Powell no longer a teenage movie star but a full blown adult performer! Her movie Three Weeks With Love with Ricardo Montalban was a tell tale sign that it was time for Jane Powell to throw away her teenager costumes once and for all and become an adult. She, Debbie Reynolds, and Natalie Wood were just three of the very few who made it from teenage performer to adult performers in the movies. So, after Royal Wedding, Jane Powell was slated for Rich, Young, and Pretty, but there was a problem; she found out that she was pregnant, so much of the shooting had to be done as quickly as possible with many of scenes filmed waist up. Danielle Darrieux had made her film debut in the U.S. in "The Rage of Paris" and hated the movie so much that there was nothing that could stop her from returning to Paris, but the script, her role, and the fact that she got to sing and dance in a Technicolor musical was enough to entice her back for Rich, Young, and Pretty! Good thing too! She was great! This was Vic Damone's first movie for Hollowood, and as my Mom said, "Everyone was swooning over Vic's Cow-eyes! What can one say about Una Merckle? Una is Una. She played servant in the Jeannette McDonald version of The Merry Widow and repeated the same role in the Lana Turner version, which was the best of the two, and repeated the servant role in Rich, Young, and Pretty, with a pretty, good, feisty performance especially in the end. As far as the songs are forgettable? This will sum up this movie and my review. Because of lack of space, I could give you word for word of all the songs in the movie, and I'm going to prove it: "They say that Paris is charming and light hearted, over and over again. They said in Paris no star shines as brightly, as Paris again, and again. They say her bonnets are lyrical sonnets. They've said it with word and with pen. They say that Paris makes April complete. They say that Taxi's makes songs in her streets. Although these things they repeat and repeat, but I like to think instead: That Paris is sort of the things that left, unsaid!" The songs are forgettable and not memorable? I don't think so!
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Jim Stauton Rogers, a Texas rancher turned international diplomat, takes his young daughter, Elizabeth Rogers, on a trip to Paris. He is concerned that his daughter might come in contact wit... Read all Jim Stauton Rogers, a Texas rancher turned international diplomat, takes his young daughter, Elizabeth Rogers, on a trip to Paris. He is concerned that his daughter might come in contact with her mother, Marie Devarone, a Parisian singer he met and loved more than twenty-five yea... Read all Jim Stauton Rogers, a Texas rancher turned international diplomat, takes his young daughter, Elizabeth Rogers, on a trip to Paris. He is concerned that his daughter might come in contact with her mother, Marie Devarone, a Parisian singer he met and loved more than twenty-five years ago.
[Elizabeth has just met Andre, a Frenchman who speaks with an American accent]
Elizabeth Rogers : Since you're a Frenchman, why don't you speak with an accent?
Elizabeth Rogers : Oh. Then, you should have an Italian accent.
Andre Milan : I went to school in London.
Elizabeth Rogers : Well, then, why don't you sound British?

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July 24, 1951 ( 1951-07-24 ) (New York City)
August 3, 1952 ( 1952-08-03 ) (U.S.) [2]

^ Jump up to: a b c d e Bosley Crowther (1951-07-26). "Two Newcomers on the Local Scene" . The New York Times .

^ Jump up to: a b Rich, Young and Pretty at the TCM Movie Database

^ Jump up to: a b c The Eddie Mannix Ledger , Los Angeles, California: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study

^ Jump up to: a b "Also Showing" . Time . 1951-08-20. Archived from the original on October 25, 2012.

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Rich, Young and Pretty is a 1951 musical film produced by Joe Pasternak for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and directed by Norman Taurog . Written by Dorothy Cooper and adapted as a screenplay by Cooper and Sidney Sheldon , it stars Jane Powell , Danielle Darrieux , Wendell Corey , and Fernando Lamas , features The Four Freshmen , and introduces Vic Damone . This was Darrieux's first Hollywood film since The Rage of Paris (1938). [4]

Elizabeth ( Jane Powell ) accompanies her wealthy Texan rancher father ( Wendell Corey ) on a visit to Paris, where her mother ( Danielle Darrieux ) lives. In Paris, she meets Andre ( Vic Damone ), an eager young Frenchman. The father tries to keep her from marrying the Frenchman and avoid the mistake he made when he married her mother.

MGM promotion for the film emphasized the film's "songs rather than its patter"; [1] Sammy Cahn wrote the lyrics and Nicholas Brodszky the music for several songs, including

Other original songs by Cahn and Brodszky include

The film also features a "studied going over" [1] of songs such as

According to MGM records, the film made $1,935,000 in the US and Canada and $1,064,000 elsewhere, making a profit of $54,000. [3]

Time said the film was "aglow with Technicolor and plush sets" and said it treated a "light cinemusical subject with the butterscotch-caramel sentimentality of the bobby-soxers it is designed to please"; the film "tackles its situations without verve or humor, and handles its lightweight problems as ponderously as if they had been propounded by Ibsen in one of his gloomier moods." [4] Bosley Crowther of The New York Times called it "pretty as a picture postcard and just about as exciting." [1]

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