Summer Holiday | |
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Australian theatrical release poster
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Directed by | Rouben Mamoulian |
Produced by | Arthur Freed |
Written by |
Eugene O'Neill (play) Frances Goodrich Albert Hackett Irving Brecher Jean Holloway |
Starring |
Mickey Rooney Gloria DeHaven Agnes Moorehead |
Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
Release date
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April 16, 1948 |
Running time
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92-93 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $2,237,000 |
Box office | $1,609,000 |
Summer Holiday is a 1948 American musical film, starring Mickey Rooney and Gloria DeHaven. The picture is based on the play Ah, Wilderness! (1933) by Eugene O'Neill, which had been filmed as under that name by MGM in 1935 with Rooney in a much smaller role. Though completed in October 1946, the film sat on the shelf until 1948.
In addition to Walter Huston, the supporting cast features Frank Morgan as the drunken Uncle Sid, portrayed earlier by Wallace Beery on screen and later by Jackie Gleason on Broadway, as well as Marilyn Maxwell, Agnes Moorehead, Selena Royle and Anne Francis.
The film was a disappointment at the box office, earning only $1,208,000 in the US and Canada and $401,000 elsewhere, resulting in a loss of $1,460,000.