Sweet Adeline (1934 film)

Not to be confused with Sweet Adeline (1926 film).

Sweet Adeline
Directed by	Mervyn LeRoy
Written by	Erwin S. Gelsey
Based on	Sweet Adeline by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II
Starring	Irene Dunne Donald Woods
Music by	Heinz Roemheld (uncredited)
Cinematography	Sol Polito
Edited by	Ralph Dawson Harold McLernon (uncredited)
Production company	Warner Bros.
Distributed by	Warner Bros. / The Vitaphone Corp.
Release dates	December 29, 1934 (1934-12-29)
Running time	82-95 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Sweet Adeline is a 1934 musical film adaptation of the 1929 Jerome Kern/Oscar Hammerstein II Broadway play of the same title. It stars Irene Dunne and Donald Woods and was directed by Mervyn LeRoy.

Cast

• Irene Dunne as Adeline [Schmidt]
• Donald Woods as Sid Barnett
• Hugh Herbert as Rupert Rockingham
• Ned Sparks as Dan Herzig
• Joseph Cawthorn as Oscar Schmidt
• Wini Shaw as Elysia (as Winifred Shaw)
• Louis Calhern as Major Day
• Nydia Westman as Nellie
• Dorothy Dare as Dot
• Phil Regan as Singer

Songs

Music by Kern and lyrics by Hammerstein, unless otherwise indicated.

• "Sweet Adeline", music by Henry W. Armstrong, lyrics by Richard Husch Gerard, sung by Hugh Herbert and Donald Wood
• "We Were So Young", sung by Irene Dunne, then a second time by Dunne, Phil Regan and a chorus
• "Play Us a Polka Dot", sung by Dorothy Dare and others
• "Here Am I", sung by Dunne
• "A Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight", music by Theodore Metz, lyrics by Joe Hayden, sung by beer garden patrons
• "Why Was I Born?", sung first by Wini Shaw, then by Dunne
• "Oriental Moon", sung by Noah Beery
• "Molly O'Donahue", sung by Regan
• "Lonely Feet", sung by Dunne alone, then later by Dunne and a chorus
• "I'd Leave My Happy Home For You", music by Harry Von Tilzer, lyrics by Will A. Heelan, sung by Johnny Eppelite
• "'Twas Not So Long Ago", sung by Joseph Cawthorn, Dunne, Regan, Herbert and Nydia Westman
• "Pretty Little Jenny Lee", sung by a barbershop quartet
• "Don't Ever Leave Me", sung by Dunne

Reception

The New York Times critic Andre Sennwald panned the film, writing, "except for the lovely Kern-Hammerstein music and one or two blazing production numbers in the best Warner Brothers style of extravaganza, 'Sweet Adeline' appears to snore in dulcet measures".

References

• Green, Stanley (1999) Hollywood Musicals Year by Year (2nd ed.), pub. Hal Leonard Corporation ISBN 0-634-00765-3 page 39

External links

• Sweet Adeline at IMDb
• Sweet Adeline at the TCM Movie Database
• Sweet Adeline at AllMovie