| Other author/creator | Seiter, William A., 1892-1964, producer. |
| Other author/creator | Miller, Marilyn, 1898-1936, performer. |
| Other author/creator | Gray, Lawrence, 1898-1970 performer. |
| Other author/creator | Heggie, O. P. (Otto Peters), 1876-1936, performer. |
| Other author/creator | Kern, Jerome, 1885-1945. Sunny. |
| Other author/creator | First National Pictures, Inc. |
| Uniform title | Sunny (Motion picture : 1930) |
| Series | Archive collection. ^A1011089 |
| Abstract |
"Sunny, a circus performer pledged by her father to marry an Englishman (Wendell-Wendell) she does not love, becomes a stowaway on an ocean liner to America, along with her father, Peters. Sunny is obliged to act as dancer and entertainer to pay her passage, while her father is put to swabbing decks. Aboard is Tom Warren, the man she loves; but he is engaged to Marcia Manners. In order to be near him and to enter the United States without a passport, she marries his best friend, Jim Deming, in name only, planning to divorce him soon after landing. Meanwhile Jim establishes a popular gymnasium resort but is put in a difficult position when his former fiancée, Weenie, and Wendell-Wendell arrive from England. When Marcia hears Sunny tell Tom that she knows he loves her, Marcia declares that their engagement will be announced at the hunt ball that very night. At the ball, Sunny announces her plans to return to England, but Tom proposes just as she is about to leave"--AFI catalog, 1921-1930. |
| General note | Based on the play Sunny, book and lyrics by Otto Harbach and Oscar Hammerstein II, music by Jerome Kern, which opened in New York on September 22, 1925. |
| General note | Originally produced as a motion picture in 1930. |
| Credits | Director, William A. Seiter; director of photography, Ernest Haller; film editor, LeRoy Stone; music director, Erno Rapee; director, ballet scenes, Theodore Kosloff. Songs: Sunny, Who?, D'ya love me?, Two little bluebirds, and I was alone, words by Otto Harbach and Oscar Hammerstein II, music by Jerome Kern. |
| Cast |
Marilyn Miller (Sunny); Lawrence Gray (Tom Warren); Joe Donahue (Jim Deming); Mackenzie Ward (Wendell-Wendell); O.P. Heggie (Peters); Inez Courtney (Weenie); Barbara Bedford (Marcia Manners); Judith Vosselli (Sue); Clyde Cook (Sam); Harry Allen (Barker); William Davidson (first officer); Ben Hendricks, Jr. (second officer). |
| Technical details | DVD. |
| Genre/form | Musical films. |
| Genre/form | Comedy films. |
| Genre/form | Feature films. |
| Genre/form | Fiction films. |
| Genre/form | Film adaptations. |
