SUNNY SIDE UP (1929) Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell & Marjorie White | B&W | Classic Film

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Sunny Side Up (stylized on-screen as Sunnyside 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.

Synopsis

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, above whose shop Molly and her flatmate, Bea Nichols, live.[2][3] Gaynor performs a 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 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, occurs without Gaynor's participation.

Cast & Crew

Janet Gaynor as Molly Carr
Charles Farrell as Jack Cromwell
Marjorie White as Bea Nichols
El Brendel as Eric Swenson
Mary Forbes as Mrs. Cromwell
Peter Gawthorne as Lake
Sharon Lynn as Jane Worth

Directed by: David Butler
Written by: B. G. DeSylva, Lew Brown, Ray Henderson
Produced by: William Fox
Cinematography: Ernest Palmer, John Schmitz
Edited by: Irene Morra
Music by: B. G. DeSylva, Lew Brown, Ray Henderson
Distributed by: Fox Film Corporation
Release Dates:
Premiere: October 3, 1929
US Release: December 29, 1929
Running Time: 121 minutes
Box Office: $2.19 million
Country: United States