The Romance of Rosy Ridge

The Romance of Rosy RidgeVacationing at a ski resort, retired screen diva Norma Shearer noticed a picture of pretty Jeanette Morrison. In no time Jeanette had a screen test, a new name Janet Leigh and the lead opposite heartthrob Van Johnson in The Romance of Rosy Ridge. Coltish, wide eyed and talented, Leigh was the ideal choice to play a coltish, wide eyed beauty in this poignant love story set in the post Civil War Ozarks, where folks are still divided blue versus gray.

experiencing action

the family home may have to be sold

This breezy backstager is memorable for its Burton Lane-Ira Gershwin score and for the once-in-a-lifetime collaboration of three legendary musical-world directors: Stanley Donen (Singin' in the Rain) behind the camera and Gower Champion and Bob Fosse (future directors of

he found his lovely leading lady just a steno pad away

& Ava Gardner

rip-roaring yarn packed with evil drug lords

Mad World) make up three sides of a romantic triangle about a horse trainer and the two women - one predatory

Plots within plots

she must find a way to keep him silent and get herself and the crooks off the hook

Gorgeous young Barbara Worth wants one thing - to help her adoptive father turn their dusty desert town into farmland

Her romances ended

Produced by two giants of cinema - David O