Sunny (1941 film)

Sunny
Directed byHerbert Wilcox
Written bySig Herzig
Based onSunny
by Oscar Hammerstein II and Otto A. Harbach
Produced byMerrill G. White
Herbert Wilcox
StarringAnna Neagle
Ray Bolger
John Carroll
CinematographyRussell Metty
Edited byElmo Williams
Music byAnthony Collins
Production
company
Suffolk Productions
Distributed byRKO Radio Pictures
Release date
  • May 30, 1941 (1941-05-30)[1]
Running time
98 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$676,000[2]
Box office$1,096,000[2]

Sunny is a 1941 American musical film directed by Herbert Wilcox and starring Anna Neagle, Ray Bolger, John Carroll, Edward Everett Horton, Grace Hartman, Paul Hartman, Frieda Inescort, and Helen Westley. It was adapted by Sig Herzig from the Jerome Kern-Oscar Hammerstein II musical play Sunny. It is the second film version of the musical; the first was Sunny, made in 1930.[3]

  1. ^ "Sunny: Detail View". American Film Institute. Retrieved April 13, 2014.
  2. ^ a b Richard Jewel, 'RKO Film Grosses: 1931-1951', Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, Vol 14 No 1, 1994 p56
  3. ^ Goble p.205