Sweet Rosie O'Grady

Sweet Rosie O'Grady is a 1943 Technicolor musical film about an American singer who attempts to better herself by marrying an English duke, but is harassed by a reporter. Directed by Irving Cummings, it stars Betty Grable and Robert Young.

Cast

Betty Grable as Madeleine Marlowe / Rosie O'Grady
Robert Young as Sam Magee
Adolphe Menjou as Thomas Moran
Reginald Gardiner as Charles, Duke of Trippingham
Virginia Grey as Edna Van Dyke
Phil Regan as Mr. Clark
Sig Ruman as Joe Flugelman
Alan Dinehart as Arthur Skinner
Hobart Cavanaugh as Clark
Frank Orth as Taxi Driver
Jonathan Hale as Mr. Fox
George Cockerill as Singer

Box office

Betty Grable was the number one box-office attraction at the time of this film's release. Her other film that year was Coney Island, and both were among the top 10 highest-grossing films of 1943 and two of 20th Century Fox's big money makers that year.