So Red the Rose (1935)
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Synopsis of So Red the Rose
So Red the Rose is a Civil War drama that plays like a warm-up for Gone With the Wind--and, unlike Wind, has two genuine Southerners in the leading roles. Margaret Sullavan is the aristocratic mistress of a sprawling Southern plantation, whose sheltered lifestyle is rent asunder by the War. All that sustains her during the conflict's darkest days is her love for her distant cousin, a Confederate officer played by Randolph Scott. Despite the incursions of Yankee troops (most of whom are portrayed as one step above gorillas), Sullavan holds her family together even after her mansion is burned to the ground. She even manages to talk her slaves out of rebelling, in a scene that must have caused embarrassment for everyone concerned in later years. The fact that So Red the Rose died at the box office (industryites dubbed the picture "So Red the Ink") was the principal reason why so many producers turned down Gone with the Wind a few years later. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Complete Cast of So Red the Rose
- Margaret Sullavan - Vallette Bedford
- Janet Beecher - Sally Bedford
- Robert Cummings - George Pendleton
- Johnny Downs - Yankee Boy
- Randolph Scott - Duncan Bedford
- Dickie Moore - Middleton Bedford
- James Burke - Maj. Rushton
- Alfred Delcambre - Charles Tolliver
- Walter Connolly - Malcolm Bedford
- Harry Ellerbe - Edward Bedford
- Charles Starrett - George McGehee
- Daniel L. Haynes - William Veal
- Elizabeth Patterson - Mary Cheery
- Clarence Muse - Cato
- Warner P. Richmond - Confederate Sergeant
- Director(s):
- King Vidor
- Writer(s):
- Maxwell Anderson, Laurence Stallings, Edwin Justus Mayer
- Producer(s):
- Douglas MacLean
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