Summer Holiday
1948 · Movie · 93 min. · United States
This version of Eugene O’Neill’s beloved coming-of-age play Ah, Wilderness! boasts Harry Warren/Ralph Blane tunes as spirited as the 4th of July. The cast is headed by Mickey Rooney (who played the youngest brother in 1935’s Ah, Wilderness!) as a lad from a warm, eccentric family who graduates from high school and into Life, complete with grand ideas, chorus girls and his first beer. The Stanley Steamer is waiting.
Direction Rouben Mamoulian
Cast Mickey Rooney · Gloria DeHaven · Walter Huston · Frank Morgan · Jackie 'Butch' Jenkins · Marilyn Maxwell · Agnes Moorehead · Selena Royle · Michael Kirby
Soundtrack Conrad Salinger
Screenplay Frances Goodrich · Albert Hackett · Eugene O'Neill
Cinematography Charles Edgar Schoenbaum
Original title Summer Holiday
5.9
21 votes (FilmAffinity)
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