Painting the Clouds with Sunshine (film)

Painting the Clouds with Sunshine

Directed by	David Butler
Produced by	William Jacobs
Written by	Harry Clork Roland Kibbee Peter Milne Avery Hopwood (Play)
Starring	Dennis Morgan Virginia Mayo Gene Nelson
Music by	Howard Jackson (uncredited)
Cinematography	Wilfred M. Cline
Edited by	Irene Morra
Distributed by	Warner Bros. Pictures
Release dates	October 10, 1951 (1951-10-10)
Running time	87 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Box office	$1.8 million (US rentals)^[1]

Painting the Clouds with Sunshine is the title of a Technicolor musical film released in 1951, directed by David Butler and starring Dennis Morgan and Virginia Mayo (singing voice was dubbed by Bonnie Lou Williams). The film was based on an earlier musical, Gold Diggers of Broadway.

Plot summary

Three smart Las Vegas theatrical girls decide to look for husbands; - Carol, (Virginia Mayo), who thinks a millionaire would be good, Abby (Lucille Norman), who is in love with baritone Vince Nichols (Dennis Morgan), but is perturbed because he gambles, and June (Virginia Gibson), who has a crush on Ted Lansing, a dancer, (Gene Nelson). Ted, however, is in love with Abby.^[2]

Cast

Dennis Morgan as Vince Nichols
Virginia Mayo as Carol
Gene Nelson as Thedore (Ted) Lansing
Lucille Norman as Abby
S.Z. Sakall as Felix 'Uncle Felix' Hoff
Virginia Gibson as June
Tom Conway as Bennington Lansing aka Uncle Benny
Wallace Ford as Sam Parks

Songs

Painting the Clouds with Sunshine and Tiptoe Through the Tulips, music and lyrics by Joe Burke and Al Dubin
- Sung by Dennis Morgan and Lucille Norman
Man Is a Necessary Evil and The Mambo Man, music by Sonny Burke, lyrics by Jack Elliott
Vienna Dreams, music by Rudolf Sieczynski, lyrics by Irving Caesar
We're in the Money, music and lyrics by Harry Warren and Al Dubin
When Irish Eyes Are Smiling, music and lyrics by Ernest R. Ball, Chauncey Olcott and George Graff, Jr.
With a Song in My Heart, music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Lorenz Hart
The Birth of the Blues, music and lyrics by Ray Henderson, B. G. DeSylva and Lew Brown
You're My Everything, music and lyrics by Harry Warren, Mort Dixon and Joe Young
Jalousie 'Tango Tzigane', music and lyrics by Jacob Gade and Vera Bloom
I Like the Mountain Music, music and lyrics by Frank Weldon and James Cavanaugh^[3]

Criticism

"Laborious plot, conventional climax - but good dances and leg-art."^[4]

References

↑ 'The Top Box Office Hits of 1951', Variety, January 2, 1952
↑ Picturegoer, 19 January 1952, p.14
↑ http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/86138/Painting-the-Clouds-with-Sunshine/music.html
↑ Picturegoer, January 19, 1952

External links

Films directed by David Butler

News Parade (1928)
Fox Movietone Follies of 1929 (1929)
Chasing Through Europe (1929)
High Society Blues (1930)
Just Imagine (1930)
A Connecticut Yankee (1931)
Delicious (1931)
Business and Pleasure (1932)
Hold Me Tight (1933)
My Weakness (1933)
Bottoms Up (1934)
Handy Andy (1934)
Have a Heart (1934)
Bright Eyes (1934)
The Little Colonel (1935)
Doubting Thomas (1935)
The Littlest Rebel (1935)
Captain January (1936)
White Fang (1936)
Pigskin Parade (1936)
Ali Baba Goes to Town (1937)
You're a Sweetheart (1937)
Kentucky Moonshine (1938)
Straight, Place and Show (1938)
Kentucky (1938)
East Side of Heaven (1939)
That's Right—You're Wrong (1939)
If I Had My Way (1940)
You'll Find Out (1940)
Caught in the Draft (1941)
Playmates (1941)
Road to Morocco (1942)
They Got Me Covered (1943)
Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943)
Shine On, Harvest Moon (1944)
The Princess and the Pirate (1944)
San Antonio (1945)
Two Guys from Milwaukee (1946)
The Time, the Place and the Girl (1946)
My Wild Irish Rose (1947)
Two Guys from Texas (1948)
John Loves Mary (1949)
Look for the Silver Lining (1949)
It's a Great Feeling (1949)
The Story of Seabiscuit (1949)
The Daughter of Rosie O'Grady (1950)
Tea for Two (1950)
Lullaby of Broadway (1951)
Painting the Clouds with Sunshine (1951)
Where's Charley? (1952)
April in Paris (1952)
By the Light of the Silvery Moon (1953)
Calamity Jane (1953)
The Command (1954)
King Richard and the Crusaders (1954)
Jump into Hell (1955)
Glory (1956)
The Girl He Left Behind (1956)
The Right Approach (1961)
C'mon, Let's Live a Little (1967)

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