A young boy is forced to leave his family in the South and move in with relatives he doesn't know in New York.A young boy is forced to leave his family in the South and move in with relatives he doesn't know in New York.A young boy is forced to leave his family in the South and move in with relatives he doesn't know in New York.
Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson
- Doctor
- (uncredited)
Matthew 'Stymie' Beard
- Lilybell Jones
- (uncredited)
Betty Blythe
- Flower Buyer
- (uncredited)
Theresa Maxwell Conover
- Mrs. Logan
- (uncredited)
Storyline
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- TriviaAl Capone, in a January 1937 letter to his son from Alcatraz Prison wrote that he had recently seen the movie "Rainbow On the River" starring Bobby Breen and that when he comes home he will play the song "Rainbow On the River" for him (Capone had learned to play banjo and the mandola, an instrument similar to the mandolin).
- Alternate versionsThe film was reissued in 1946 under the title "It Happened in New Orleans", and credited the following additional people onscreen: Seline ... Lillian Yarbo, Lilybell ... Matthew 'Stymie' Beard (as Stymie Beard), Doctor ... Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson (as Edward Anderson).
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stealing the heavenly blues...
This gorgeous famiy film was a smash success in Australia and I assume everywhere else in first release. My late mother Patricia keenly remembered seeing it at out local 1500 seat Marina Theatre in Rosebery at a session so packed she had to sit on the steps upstairs. I had the 78rpm record for years (still have, actually) and it is astonishing what a great voice Bobby Breen had. His series of Musicals really should be re packaged and dvd released as they are excellent, and I am astonished to find came from Principal Pictures (Chandu, anyone?) who I thought had folded into Republic in 1935. This film like all the others was released by RKO on a world wide plan so I guess all were a kid series to their Astaire Rogers musical series concurrent.
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- It Happened in New Orleans
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- Runtime1 hour 27 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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