My Wild Irish Rose

{{Infobox film

| name = My Wild Irish Rose

| image = My Wild Irish Rose FilmPoster.jpeg

| alt =

| caption = Theatrical release poster

| director = David Butler

| writer = Peter Milne

| producer = William Jacobs

| starring = Dennis Morgan

| music = Max Steiner
Ray Heindorf

| cinematography = Arthur Edeson
William V. Skall

| editing = Irene Morra

| studio =

| distributor = Warner Bros.

| released = {{Film date|1947|12|24|New York City}}

| runtime = 101 minutes

| country = United States

| language = English

| budget =$3,540,000Warner Bros financial information in The William Schaefer Ledger. See Appendix 1, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, (1995) 15:sup1, 1-31 p 28 DOI: 10.1080/01439689508604551

| gross =$3.4 million (US rentals)[https://archive.org/stream/variety173-1949-01#page/n45/mode/1up "Top Grossers of 1948", Variety 5 January 1949 p 46] or $4,890,000

}}

My Wild Irish Rose is a 1947 American musical film directed by David Butler. It stars Dennis Morgan and Arlene Dahl (in her debut film). It was nominated for an Academy Award in 1948.{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0039647/awards|title=My Wild Irish Rose|via=www.imdb.com}}

Plot

A fictionalized biopic of Chauncey Olcott, the movie traces the rise of an Irish-American tenor to stardom at the end of the 19th century and start of the 20th.

Cast

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Dennis Morgan as Chauncey Olcott
Arlene Dahl as Rose Donovan
Andrea King as Lillian Russell
Alan Hale Sr. as John Donovan
George Tobias as Nick Popolis
Ben Blue as Hopper
George O'Brien as William "Duke" Muldoon
William Frawley as William J. Scanlan

Soundtrack

Olcott's original composition of the same name was included in the film's music and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Scoring of a Musical Picture.