''Rainbow 'Round My Shoulder'' is a 1952 American musical film directed by

Richard Quine Richard Quine (November 12, 1920June 10, 1989) was an American director, actor, and singer. He began acting as a child in radio, vaudeville, and stage productions before being signed to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in his early twenties. When his acting ...

and written by

Blake Edwards Blake Edwards (born William Blake Crump; July 26, 1922 – December 15, 2010) was an American film director, producer, screenwriter and actor. Edwards began his career in the 1940s as an actor, but he soon began writing screenplays and radio s ...

and Richard Quine. The film stars

Frankie Laine Frankie Laine (born Francesco Paolo LoVecchio; March 30, 1913 – February 6, 2007) was an American singer, songwriter, and actor whose career spanned nearly 75 years, from his first concerts in 1930 with a marathon dance company to his final p ...

, Billy Daniels, Charlotte Austin, Arthur Franz, Ida Moore and Lloyd Corrigan. The film was released in September 1952, by

Columbia Pictures Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. is an American film production studio that is a member of the Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group, a division of Sony Pictures Entertainment, which is one of the Big Five studios and a subsidiary of the multi ...

Plot

Two singers help an aspiring actress whose grandmother opposes her launching a show-business career.

Cast

as Frankie Laine * Billy Daniels as Billy Daniels * Charlotte Austin as Cathy Blake * Arthur Franz as Phil Young * Ida Moore as Martha Blake * Lloyd Corrigan as Tobias aka Toby *

Barbara Whiting Smith Barbara Whiting Smith (May 19, 1931 – June 9, 2004) was an American actress and singer. Early life Whiting was born in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of music manager Eleanor Youngblood Whiting and composer Richard A. Whit ...

as Suzy Milligan *Ross Ford as Elliott Livermore * Arthur Space as Joe Brady

References

External links

* 1952 films 1950s English-language films American musical films 1952 musical films Columbia Pictures films Films directed by Richard Quine 1950s American films {{musical-film-stub