Rose Marie

This is a picture of Snake River that snakes its way through Snake Canyon. It cost me some money today. As I have wandered through these mountains this summer seeing all the lovely streams and firs and wildflower meadows, something kept nagging at the back of my mind about a movie I had seen when I was a child.

I grew up in very rural New Zealand. There were no movie theatres in the tiny community that was the closest, only a big hall where probably once a month they played a movie. And they would have taken a long time to arrive there from the big old USA.

Finally today, the name Rose Marie came to me. I googled it and eventually found my way to eBay where I purchased a copy of the 1954 adaptation.

Here is Wikipedia's description.
Rose Marie is a 1954 musical adaptation of the 1924 operetta of the same name, the third by MGM, following a 1928 silent movie and the best-known of the three, the 1936 Jeanette MacDonald/Nelson Eddy version. It is directed by Mervyn LeRoy and stars Ann Blyth, Howard Keel and Fernando Lamas. The story adheres closely to that of the original libretto, unlike the 1936 version. It is somewhat altered by a tomboy to lady conversion for the title character. Only 3 numbers are retained: "Rose Marie", "Indian Love Call, and "The Mounties". Five new songs were written for the film: "The Right Place For A Girl", "Free To Be Free", "The Mountie Who Never Got His Man", "I Have The Love", and "Love And Kisses".

This version is filmed in the Canadian Rockies in CinemaScope. It was MGM's first film in the new widescreen medium and the first movie musical of any studio to be released in this format.

So I am looking forward to watching the DVD and to see what other memories may come back.