Chasing Rainbows (1930)
1h 40m
Running Time
January 10, 1930Release Date
Chasing Rainbows (1930)
1h 40m
Running Time
January 10, 1930Release Date
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Plot.
The road-show troupe of a top Broadway show go cross-country while taking the audience along on the on-stage scenes as well as what happens and is happening back stage of the production. The spectacular dancing ensembles and colorful costumes and pulchritude on-stage offers a contrasting background to the drabness of the backstage, where joy, sorrow, tragedies, deception, and romance are intertwined.
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Cast & Crew.
Bessie Love
Carlie Seymour
Charles King
Terry Fay
Jack Benny
Eddie Rock
Polly Moran
Polly
George K. Arthur
Lester
Gwen Lee
Peggy
Charles Reisner
Director
Robert E. Hopkins
Writer
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Chasing Rainbows (also known as The Road Show) is a 1930 American Pre-Code romantic musical film directed by Charles Reisner, and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
The film reunites The Broadway Melody stars Bessie Love and Charles King, with a supporting cast of Jack Benny, Marie Dressler, and Polly Moran. This was Jack Benny's first dramatic role in a motion picture.
Filmed in July and August 1929, it was not released for months later, missing an opportunity to capitalize on the success of its song "Happy Days Are Here Again", which by then had already been a major hit.