Ramona (1936 film)

Ramona is a 1936 American Drama Western film directed by Henry King,^[3] based on Helen Hunt Jackson's 1884 novel Ramona. This was the third adaptation of the film, and the first one with sound. It was the fourth American feature film using the new three strip Technicolor process. It starred Loretta Young and Don Ameche.

Ramona
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Henry King
Written by	Stuart Anthony Paul Hervey Fox Sonya Levien Lillian Wurtzel
Screenplay by	Lamar Trotti
Based on	Ramona 1884 novel by Helen Hunt Jackson
Produced by	John Stone Sol M. Wurtzel
Starring	Loretta Young Don Ameche
Cinematography	William V. Skall
Edited by	Alfred DeGaetano
Music by	Alfred Newman
Color process	Technicolor
Production company	20th Century Fox
Distributed by	20th Century Fox
Release date	September 25, 1936 (1936-09-25)
Running time	84 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$600,000[1]
Box office	$1 million[2]

The New York Times praised its use of new Technicolor technology but found the plot "a piece of unadulterated hokum." It thought "Ramona is a pretty impossible rôle these heartless days" and Don Ameche "a bit too Oxonian" for a chief's son.^[4]

The film's copyright was renewed on June 16, 1964.^[5]

Plot

Cast

• Loretta Young as Ramona
• Don Ameche as Alessandro
• Kent Taylor as Felipe Moreno
• Pauline Frederick as Señora Moreno
• Jane Darwell as Aunt Ri Hyar
• Katherine DeMille as Margarita
• Victor Kilian as Father Gaspara
• John Carradine as Jim Farrar
• J. Carrol Naish as Juan Can
• Pedro de Cordoba as Father Salvierderra
• Charles Waldron as Dr. Weaver
• Claire Du Brey as Marda
• Russell Simpson as Scroggs
• William Benedict as Joseph Hyar
• D'Arcy Corrigan as Jeff (uncredited)
• Ethan Laidlaw as Bill (uncredited)