HIGH, WIDE AND HANDSOME
DIRECTED BY ROUBEN MAMOULIAN
PARAMOUNT PICTURES
INFORMATION FROM IMDb
Plot Summary
The setting is a small town in 1870s Pennsylvania. Sally Waterson and her father have stopped in town with their traveling medicine show, but when their wagon catches fire, they find themselves stranded. They're taken in by Mrs. Cortlandt and her grandson, Peter, who is trying to set up a pipeline that will supply oil throughout the state. Sally and Peter soon fall in love and marry. Neither their marriage nor Peter's pipe dreams flow too smoothly.
Written by Daniel Bubbeo
Cast
Irene Dunne ...Sally Watterson
Randolph Scott ... Peter Cortlandt
Dorothy Lamour ... Molly Fuller
Elizabeth Patterson ... Grandma Cortlandt
Raymond Walburn ... Doc Watterson
Charles Bickford ... Red Scanlon
Akim Tamiroff ... Joe Varese
Ben Blue ... Zeke
William Frawley ... Mac
Alan Hale ... Walt Brennan
Irving Pichel ... Mr. Stark
Stanley Andrews ... Lem Moulton
James Burke ... Stackpole
Roger Imhof ... Pop Bowers
Lucien Littlefield ... Mr. Lippincott
Purnell Pratt ... Col. Blake
Edward Gargan ... Foreman
and many more...
Directed
Rouben Mamoulian
Writing Credits
Oscar Hammerstein II
George O'Neil
Produced
Arthur Hornblow Jr. ... producer
Music
Robert Russell Bennett ... (uncredited)
Cinematography
Victor Milner
Theodor Sparkuhl
Trivia
One of over 700 Paramount Productions, filmed between 1929 and 1949, which were sold to MCA/Universal in 1958 for television distribution, and have been owned and controlled by Universal ever since. Its New York City television premiere took place Saturday 1 August 1959 on WCBS (Channel 2). It was released on DVD 9 December 2014 as part of the Universal Vault Series.
According to Margaret J. Bailey's book on Hollywood costume design of the 1930's, "Those Glorious Glamour Years," apple trees in blossom were required for some scenes. Frost in California had decimated the apple trees, so studio technicians at Paramount Studios worked overnight, peeling rosebuds down and sticking them on bare trees with maple syrup to simulate an apple orchard in full blossom.
Filming Locations
Big Bear Lake, Big Bear Valley, San Bernardino National Forest, California, USA
Big Bear Valley, San Bernardino National Forest, California, USA
Chino, California, USA
Paramount Studios - 5555 Melrose Avenue, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA (interiors)