Under the Rainbow (1981) on Netflix
In 1938, Rollo Sweet dreams of Hollywood from a Kansas shelter. In Culver City, Annie Clark checks into a hotel filling with Munchkin actors, a duke and duchess, and spies.
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Plot summary
The story is set in 1938. Rollo Sweet lives in a Kansas homeless shelter and dreams of a future in Hollywood. In Culver City, Annie Clark, who works at a film studio, and her assistant Homer check into a hotel near the studio. An Austrian duke and duchess stay there with Secret Service agent Bruce Thorpe as their escort. Nazi agent Otto Kriegling, his Japanese contact Nakomuri, and a group of Japanese photographers take rooms too, along with 150 little people cast as Munchkins. The hotel's owner is out of town, so his nephew Henry is left in charge for a weekend, and he renames it the Hotel Rainbow and books in far more guests than it can hold.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Under the Rainbow (1981)
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- Filming on Under the Rainbow ran over four months, for reasons reported to include the little people's lack of acting experience and star Chevy Chase's depression after the death of Douglas Kenney, which Chase denied.
- Part of Under the Rainbow was shot at the Culver Hotel, the same hotel where the actors playing the Munchkins had stayed during the production of The Wizard of Oz.
- Under the Rainbow is loosely based on a real 1938 gathering: little people staying at a Hollywood hotel while auditioning for Munchkin roles in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's 1939 The Wizard of Oz.
- For several actors, including Phil Fondacaro and Debbie Lee Carrington, the 1981 comedy Under the Rainbow marked their first film role.
