Ramona (1936 film)

Ramona
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Henry King
Produced by	John Stone Sol M. Wurtzel
Written by	Stuart Anthony Paul Hervey Fox Sonya Levien Lillian Wurtzel
Screenplay by	Lamar Trotti
Based on	Ramona 1884 novel by Helen Hunt Jackson
Starring	Loretta Young Don Ameche
Music by	Alfred Newman
Cinematography	William V. Skall
Edited by	Alfred DeGaetano
Distributed by	20th Century Fox
Release dates	September 25, 1936
Running time	84 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$600,000[1]
Box office	$1 million[2]

Ramona is a 1936 American Technicolor drama film directed by Henry King,^[3] based on Helen Hunt Jackson's 1884 novel Ramona. This was the third adaptation of the film, and the first one with sound. It starred Loretta Young and Don Ameche.

The New York Times praised its use of new Technicolor technology but found the plot "a piece of unadulterated hokum." It thought "Ramona is a pretty impossible rôle these heartless days" and Don Ameche "a bit too Oxonian" for a chief's son.^[4]

Plot

Ramona (Loretta Young), is a half-Indian girl who falls in love with the young man Felipe Moreno (Kent Taylor).

Cast

• Loretta Young as Ramona
• Don Ameche as Alessandro
• Kent Taylor as Felipe Moreno
• Pauline Frederick as Señora Moreno
• Jane Darwell as Aunt Ri Hyar
• Katherine DeMille as Margarita (as Katherine de Mille)
• Victor Kilian as Father Gaspara
• John Carradine as Jim Farrar
• J. Carrol Naish as Juan Can
• Pedro de Cordoba as Father Salvierderra
• Charles Waldron as Dr. Weaver
• Claire Du Brey as Marda

References

1. Solomon p 240
2. Aubrey Solomon (2002). Twentieth Century-Fox: A Corporate and Financial History. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 212. ISBN 978-0-8108-4244-1.
3. "New York Times: Ramona". NY Times. Retrieved June 2, 2008.
4. New York Times: Ramona (1936), October 7, 1936, accessed February 14, 2011

External links

• Ramona at the American Film Institute Catalog
• Ramona at the Internet Movie Database
• Ramona at AllMovie
• Ramona at the TCM Movie Database