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Sunny is a american film of genre Comedy directed by William A. Seiter released in USA on 9 november 1930 with Marilyn Miller

Sunny (1930)

Sunny
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Released in USA 9 november 1930
Length 1h18
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Comedy,    Musical,    Romance
Rating53% 2.671452.671452.671452.671452.67145

Sunny is a 1930 all-talking Pre-Code musical comedy film, produced and released by First National Pictures, a subsidiary of Warner Brothers. The movie was based on the Broadway stage hit, Sunny, produced by Charles Dillingham, which played from September 22, 1925, to December 11, 1926. Marilyn Miller, who had played the leading part in the Broadway production, was hired by Warner Brothers to reprise the role that made her the highest-paid star on Broadway. The film starred Lawrence Gray, O. P. Heggie and Inez Courtney.

Synopsis

Marylin Miller plays the part of an American circus performer, doing her act in a British circus, who is engaged to a man she does not love. A former boyfriend, played by Lawrence Gray, stops by to see her before taking boat back to the United States. Miller realizing that she loves Gray, decides to run away. She embarks on the same boat that Lawrence takes. Her father, who realizes what his daughter has done, reaches the boat just as it is about to leave and manages to board it. While on board, Gray becomes engaged to be married to a wealthy socialite (Barbara Bedford). Miller learns that she will not be allowed to disembark in the United States without a passport. In order to land, Miller marries an American friend, intending to divorce him as soon as she is safely inside the United States. After arrive in the states, Miller tells Gray about her love for him. Bedford overhears them and tells Gray that she will announce their engagement at a party that very night. Disappointed, Miller decides to return to England, but Gray proposes to her just as she is about to leave.

Actors

Marilyn Miller

(Sunny Peters)Lawrence Gray

(Tom Warren)Inez Courtney

('Weenie')O. P. Heggie

(Peters)Barbara Bedford

(Margaret Manners)
And :
Clyde Wilfred Cook
Judith Vosselli
William B. Davidson
June Gittelson
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