Rosalie

Love Nelson Eddy singing and Eleanor Powell’s dancing. Just a rollicking silly kind of movie, but so fun to watch. Boy, these people had talent!! Ray Bolger (the Scarecrow in Wizard of Oz) and Frank Morgan (the Wizard in Wizard of OZ) are also delightful in this film. This is before the Wizard of Oz was filmed, I believe.

"Rosalie" is a shimmering escapist movie that glistens - even in black and white. Production numbers are exceptional, with reminders throughout the story of a fantasy decade of lacy satins, patent leather buckled tap shoes, and gossamer nights. No magical chemistry here between the lead players, as in MacDonald/Eddy films before and after, but a very pleasant 1930s love story between a West Point football hero, Dick Thorpe (Nelson Eddy) and an incognito Princess attending Vassar, Rosalie (Eleanor Powell). The harmonious blending of Nelson's distinctive voice and Eleanor's brilliant dancing is what makes this movie succeed. Cole Porter's music doesn't hurt, either. The story line has the two falling in love after the big Army/Navy football game, where Thorpe scores as gridiron hero but wants to score with Rosalie. He has no clue she is a princess in the kingdom of Romanza, a tiny hamlet in Eastern Europe. Rosalie has fun teasing him along and she invites him to her country's springtime celebration. He accepts and trouble starts. The Queen, Edna May Oliver, disputes Thorpe's interest in Rosalie, having decided on a royal marriage for her daughter. The King, Ralph Morgan, is his usual scatter-brained self, (as in Oz) not entirely in charge of any situation. Those two playing Rosalie's parents is a stretch, they could have easily been her grandparents. But in '30s movie history, all parents looked like grandparents, a sign of that culture. Also of that culture, the "Hail Good Fellow" mentality does no harm to this well- worn theme of rich girl/poor boy. Eleanor's uncommon kind of beauty - enhanced with a curt speaking voice and eyes twinkling throughout as if withholding a secret - matches well with Nelson's out-of-doors but drawing-room smooth, atypical good looks. No manifest intimacy between the two, but hey...it is only a movie, after all, and definitely worth seeing...at least once.

If you like musicals and are Young at Heart, you will fall in love with the beautiful Eleanor Powell and be mesmerized by her athletic prowess. Throw in Cole Porter's elegant, rhythmic music and you're hooked. Forget a complicated plot; if that's what you seek, find a Russian play. For the gals, there's that handsome baritone, the inimitable Nelson Eddy. You cannot lose."Rosalie" is among the best, most uplifting of Ms. Powell's movies. She was a lush, radiant 25 when she made this movie and a consummate athlete in peak form and probably the best female tap dancer of all time. After God made her, He threw away the mold. (See her ballet -- of sorts -- in Broadway Melody of 1936;Double WOW.) Normally I oppose cloning humans; for her, I'd make an exception.West Point Footbal Hero Dick Thorpe falls in love with a pretty Vassar girl who is secretly a princess (Eleanor Powell)in the tiny Baltic kingdom of Romanza. Her evil mum wants a forced marriage for her to a semi-royal who is not in love with Rosalie.Thorpe, not knowing this, serenades her, flys to meet her in Romanza only to find she is now betrothed to another. Love wins out, of course and there's GREAT dancing and music, and I DO mean great. Yes, there's corn and her father-king is more than a little batty, but that's a small price to pay for the best dancing legs you'll ever see. Sinatra was right!The ONLY question to ask is WHY this is not in DVD. Can we picket Turner?

"Rosalie" seems to be on very few lists of "Favorite Musicals" but it IS what used to be called a very entertaining "package." True, Eleanor Powell & Nelson Eddy are 2 bland stiffs as the romantic leads, but the comic relief is truly funny: Frank "Wizard of Oz" Morgan as king of a mythical European kingdom who rules via an ugly old dummy he holds on his knee (and to whom he bumblingly gives voice). The real ruler is Edna May Oliver as his Queen. Rosalie is their daughter, who returns home from attending college in the States with Eddy hot (?) on her trail. He's not only a football star, he's also a trans-Atlantic aviator. It's nonsense served by the ton, typically MGM in those days. And tho the songs do include Porters immortal "In the Still of the Night," a forgotten tune called "It's All Over but the Shouting" gets far more attention from the film makers. Bottom line: worth seeing, especially with one finger on "fast forward"....

A fairly silly plot, a script running on auto-pilot for much of the time but with some good comic moments, an interesting opportunity to see Ray Bolger and Frank Morgan in other roles 2 years before their career-defining appearances in the "Wizard of Oz" ... AND the sensational Eleanor Powell, my favorite dancing star, doing probably her best-ever routine, flitting across an alleged 60-acre set, flying from one riser to another. Pure magic! Incidentally, my copy plays on my regular UK DVD player - seems to be region 0.

very good

I bought this film because I was curious to see Nelson Eddy without Jeanette MacDonald....

Eleanor Powell dances up a storm, other than that not a good buy. The dancing comes toward the end of the movie. The dance scenes can be found on Youtube, so...

I ordered the movie Rosalie go shopping I received the wrong DVD