The Romance of Rosy Ridge

A Confederate veteran of the just-ended Civil War, MacBean (Thomas Mitchell) and son (Dean Stockwell) are wary of strangers, thus nervous as Carson (top-billed Van Johnson, his first scene) approaches, his wife and daughter (Selena Royle, Janet Leigh) joining, in MGM’s The Romance Of Rosy Ridge, 1947.

Burning map, quasi-Klansmen, and a camera turn under a bonnet begins Janet Leigh's movie career, as "Lissy Anne," misinterpreting a message from "Ninny Nat" (O.Z. Whitehead), opening MGM's The Romance Of Rosy Ridge, 1947.

Jamie Lee Curtis offers this original tribute to her mother Janet Leigh, TCM's Star Of The Month for October, 2014.

Drifter Henry (Van Johnson) charming all with a song and work in the fields, with Lissy Anne (Janet Leigh), her mother (Selena Royle), and father (Thomas Mitchell), still vexed over his loyalties in the recently-ended Civil War, in The Romance Of Rosy Ridge, 1947.

A farmer's daughter falls in love with a man who fought against her family in the Civil War in The Romance of Rosy Ridge (1947).