Rosalie

Produced on the stage by Ziegfeld in 1928, the play ran more than a year at the New Amsterdam Theatre in New York with Marilyn Miller in the title role, Oliver McLennan as the male star and Frank Morgan as the king of the small land whence his daughter hails. To reproduce this film today would cost the receipts of the entire Kuwaiti oil industry for a year. It came in at more than two million, and every penny was on the screen with thousands of extras, all dressed in expensive costumes, and a host of musical numbers that made this seem like a cross between an operetta and a campus musical. The score for the play was done by Sigmund Romberg and George Gershwin, but ...