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Sunny Side Up (film)

Sunny Side Up
Poster of the movie Sunny Side Up.jpg
Directed by David Butler
Produced by William Fox
Written by B. G. DeSylva
Lew Brown
Ray Henderson
Starring Janet Gaynor
Charles Farrell
Music by B. G. DeSylva
Lew Brown
Ray Henderson
Cinematography Ernest Palmer
John Schmitz
Edited by Irene Morra
Distributed by Fox Film Corporation
Release date
  • October 3, 1929 (1929-10-03)
Running time
121 minutes
Country United States
Language English
Box office $3.3 million

Sunny Side Up is a 1929 American Pre-Code Fox Movietone musical film starring Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell, with original songs, story, and dialogue by B. G. DeSylva, Lew Brown and Ray Henderson. The romantic comedy/musical premiered on October 3, 1929 at the Gaiety Theatre in New York City. The film was directed by David Butler, had (now-lost) Multicolor sequences, and a running time of 121 minutes.

The film centres around a Will-they won't-they romance. Wealthy Jack Cromwell from Long Island runs off to New York City on account of his fiancee's relentless flirting. He attends an Independence Day block party where Molly Carr, from Yorkville, Manhattan, falls in love with him. Comic relief is provided by grocer Eric Swenson (El Brendel), above whose shop Molly and her flatmate, Bea Nichols (Marjorie White), live. Gaynor performs a charming singing and dancing version of the song "(Keep Your) Sunny Side Up" for a crowd of her neighbors, complete with top hat and cane. Later in the film, a lavish pre-Code dance sequence for the song "Turn on the Heat," including scantily clad and gyrating island women enticing bananas on trees to abruptly grow and stiffen, with the graphic metaphor lost on no one, occurs without Gaynor's participation.


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