The Sun Comes Up
Jeanette MacDonald gives her farewell film performance in this tender and touching tale that features everyone’s favorite film canine, Lassie. Director Richard Thorpe (The Great Caruso) and screenwriters William Ludwig and Margaret Fitts tell the story – based on Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, author of The Yearling – of a widowed concert singer who seeks solace in the mountain country to forget the tragic loss of her teenage son. Embittered, she blames Lassie, her son’s pet, for the fatal accident.
