Happy Canada Day, eh?

[rusty_armour]

I looked for all kinds of CanCon on YouTube, but ended up with the McKenzie Brothers -- as I so often do. It's hard to get more Canadian than this:

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And this is distinctly unCanadian:

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[puckrobin.livejournal.com]

Happy Canada Day, Rusty. I saw Rose Marie a few months ago. The two leads Jeannette Macdonald and Nelson Eddy were meant to star in a operetta film version of Robin Hood released shortly after the Flynn film.

Warner Bros. had controlling rights on the 1890 Robin Hood comic opera and traded those rights to MGM in exchange for MGM's draft scripts of a non-musical Robin Hood. The contractual agreements were that the Nelson/Macdonald film will come out a year after the Flynn one.

I'm not sure why they ended up abandoning the Macdonald/Eddy musical version, as MGM was still releasing pre-production publicity after the success of Flynn's Robin Hood.

[rusty-armour.livejournal.com]

And a Happy Canada Day to you too, puckrobin! :-D Considering when it was made, Rose Marie isn't a bad movie. Its portrayal of Canada is more flattering than what you see in The Scarlet Claw (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0037248/?ref_=sr_2). I also got a kick out of spotting a very young Jimmy Stewart playing Jeanette MacDonald's younger brother. Anywaaaaaaay, it's too bad they didn't make that comic opera. I could easily picture the two of them playing Robin Hood and Marian. And I would have thought they'd want to take advantage of the positive buzz from Flynn's Robin Hood.