Chasing Rainbows (1930 film)

Chasing Rainbows
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Charles Reisner
Written by	Al Boasberg Wells Root Kenyon Nicholson Charles Reisner
Based on	Road Show by Robert E. Hopkins Bess Meredyth
Starring	Bessie Love Charles King
Music by	Milton Ager Jack Yellen
Cinematography	Ira H. Morgan
Edited by	George Hively
Distributed by	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date	February 23, 1930
Running time	100 minutes 90 minutes (existent)
Country	United States
Language	English

Chasing Rainbows is a 1930 American Pre-Code romantic musical film directed by Charles Reisner, starring Bessie Love and Charles King, and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The supporting cast features Jack Benny, Marie Dressler, and Polly Moran. This was Jack Benny's first fiction film role.

The movie introduced the song "Happy Days Are Here Again".

Carlie and Terry constitute a vaudeville team in a traveling musical show; also in the company are Eddie, the stage manager; Bonnie, a comedian; and Polly, the wardrobe mistress. Terry's habit of constantly falling in love with the leading lady causes him to marry Daphne, a two-timing songstress. When he finds her with another man, Eddie threatens to kill himself, but his little partner reassures him that "Happy Days Are Here Again," and the show goes on.

Chasing Rainbows was mostly filmed in black and white, but had two Technicolor sequences. Today those sequences are lost (originally removed for a 1931 re-release and destroyed in the Vault 7 fire), but the rest of the movie survives. It has been issued on DVD in the Warner Archive Collection. The lost sequences, with only the sound still existent on Vitaphone disks, include the "Happy Days Are Here Again" performance.