Finian's Rainbow was an incomplete 1954 animated feature film, being an adaptation of the musical Finian's Rainbow. It began production in 1954 directed by John Hubley. The crew included Art Babbit, Bill Tytla and Paul Julian.
Among the cast were Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Oscar Peterson, Louis Armstrong, Barry Fitzgerald, Jim Backus and David Burns plus David Wayne and Ella Logan from the original Broadway production.[1]
The film ran into difficulty due to Hubley and Harburg's refusal to testify before the House Committee on Un-American Activities. The film was abandoned.[2]
Some recordings survive along with several sketches.[3]
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- ^ Deck Is Stacked Against Broadway By Philip K. Scheuer Special to the Los Angeles Times. The Washington Post and Times-Herald (1959-1973) [Washington, D.C] 26 December 1967: C7.
- ^ "John Canemaker. "Lost Rainbow". "Print" March/April 1993". Michaelspornanimation.com. Retrieved 2012-05-12.
- ^ Jones, Kenneth (March 2, 2010). "An Animated Finian's Rainbow?". Playbill.
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