South Sea Rose

{{short description|1929 film}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=October 2020}}

{{Infobox film

| name = South Sea Rose

| image = Lenore Ulric 1929.jpg

| caption = Lenore Ulric as Rose

| director = Allan Dwan

| producer = Allan Dwan

| writer = Sonya Levien
Elliott Lester (dialogue)

| based_on = {{based on|La Gringa|Tom Cushing}}

| starring = Lenore Ulric

| music = Peter Brunelli (uncredited)
Arthur Kay (uncredited)
Glen Knight (uncredited)

| cinematography = Harold Rosson

| editing = Harold Schuster

| distributor = Fox Film Corporation

| released = {{Film date|1929|12|08}}

| runtime = 69 minutes (7 reels)

| country = United States

| language = English

}}

South Sea Rose is a 1929 American sound (All-Talking) comedy-drama film distributed by the Fox Film Corporation and produced and directed by Allan Dwan. This picture was Dwan's second collaboration with star Lenore Ulric, their first being Frozen Justice. Much of the cast and crew on Frozen Justice returned for this film.{{cite book|last=Lombardi|first=Frederic|title=Allan Dwan and the Rise and Decline of the Hollywood Studios|date=2013|publisher=McFarland|isbn=978-0-7864-3485-5|page=174}}

South Sea Rose is based the 1928 Broadway stage play La Gringa by Tom Cushing, which starred then unknown theatre player Claudette Colbert.{{cite book|last=Dick|first=Bernard F.|title=Claudette Colbert: She Walked in Beauty|date=2008|publisher=Univ. Press of Mississippi|isbn=978-1-60473-329-7|page=27}} Like Frozen Justice, this film is now presumed lost.[http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/S/SouthSeaRose1929.html South Sea Rose at silentera.com]