Summer Holiday (1948) - (Movie Clip) The Stanley Steamer

Summer Holiday - (Original Trailer)

Walter Huston and Mickey Rooney star in Summer Holiday (1948), a musical remake of the Eugene O'Neill play, Ah, Wilderness!.

Summer Holiday (1948) -- (Movie Clip) Afraid To Fall In Love

Setting may look a little more Hollywood than the purported Danville, Connecticut, but Mickey Rooney as graduating Richard is lobbying for a smooch from girlfriend Muriel (Gloria De Haven), director Rouben Mamoulian giving them rope with a Harry Warren/Ralph Blane original, in Summer Holiday, 1948, from producer Arthur Freed for MGM.

Summer Holiday (1948) -- (Movie Clip) Our Home Town

From the top, Walter Huston as dad Nat Miller introduces the gimmick, original tunes by Harry Warren and Ralph Blane serving as exposition in the musical adaptation of Eugene O’Neill’s Ah, Wilderness, bringing in Butch Jenkins, Michael Kirby, Marilyn Maxwell, Selena Royle, Frank Morgan and Agnes Moorehead, in Summer Holiday, 1948, produced by Arthur Freed for MGM.