Sweet Adeline (1934 film)

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".^[1]

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

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