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Sunny (1941)

Sunny poster
Directed by
Herbert Wilcox
Genre
musical film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 38m
Rating
5.9 of 10 from 7 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A circus performer and a socialite fall in love, but their different worlds cause complications. The story follows their attempts to be together.

old-fashionedupbeatromanticspiritedwhimsicalbouncylightheartedcharming

What happens

Sunny is a 1941 American musical film directed by Herbert Wilcox and starring Anna Neagle, Ray Bolger, John Carroll, Edward Everett Horton, Grace Hartman, Paul Hartman, Frieda Inescort, and Helen Westley. It was adapted by Sig Herzig from the Jerome Kern-Oscar Hammerstein II musical play Sunny. It is the second film version of the musical; the first was Sunny, made in 1930. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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