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Rose Petal Place (1984)

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hile you may have heard the old wives tale that if you talk to flowers they will grow, you might not have heard about a place where the flowers themselves talk while they grow (and sing)!

There is such a place, Rose-Petal Place to be exact, where flowers roam free and cultivate their own magical garden.

Rose-Petal Place is located in the garden of a deserted mansion. A little girl (Nicole Eggert), whose clothes suggest the early 1900's, used to live in the mansion and take care of the garden, but unfortunately she had to move. The girl kisses her flowers goodbye, and as she does so a tear falls on each of her favorite flowers, magically bringing them to life.

There's the big brown-eyed Sunny Sunflower(Sue Blu), the African-American Iris(Candy Ann Brown), the blue-haired Lily Fair( Renae Jacobs), and the leader of the garden pretty-in-pink Rose-Petal (Marie Osmond), who lives in her own watering pot home and drives a rosebud -shaped car.

Rose-Petal's beautiful voice is what keeps the garden alive, so everyone depends on her, including the wise Seymour the snail (Frank Welker), Pitter-Pat the violet colored cat, P.D. the caterpiller (Frank Welker), and Tumbles the hedgehog.

Not all of Rose-Petal Place, however, is inhabited by flowers. In an unkempt corner of the garden is a briar patch where Nastina (Marilyn Schreffler) the blue-skinned dress-wearing widow spider and her friend Horace the fly(Frank Welker) live. The duo are sabotagers to the flower girls, and plan to rob Rose-Petal of her lovely voice.

The two insects sinisterly lock Rose-Petal up in a room with no light where (being a flower) if she gets no light she will die. Of course like most childrens films, all's well that end's well and Rose-Petal's friends come to the rescue, making the garden once again home to Rose-Petal and her menagerie of plant-like and animal friends.

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Oh my God!, this cartoon smacks of my childhood! It is right up there with Rainbow Brite, The Carebears, and Strawberry Shortcake!

I had all of the Rose-Petal merchandise and watched this film so many times.

Just to let ya know, this film was released on video even though if you check the internet movie data base it says it was never on video. That's not true though, because I have it on vhs, although it may be out of print, by now, I'm not sure.

For all of you guys in your early to mid-twenties who grew up as kids in the 80's like me, you've got to watch this cartoon. It is such a time warp to my childhood! It is so me!

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The main concept of rose-Petal Place is shown in a poem that used to come on the boxes of Rose-Petal Place merchandise. Here is the poem:

The Story Of Rose-Petal Place
Long ago on a day in May
A young girl had to go away
And leave her lovely garden fair
With no-one to tend it; no-one to care.
So the child cried and her teardrops fell;
It was as though they cast a spell.
For they touched the petals of a rose,
And magically, so the story goes
The rose and others came alive.
Now it's here they live and here they thrive.
In Rose-Petal Place...
There's a garden of love to share.



Thr other six characters in the second special ("Rose Petal Place: Real Friends") that were not featured in the first were Canterbury Belle, Sweet Violet, Fuschia, Gladiola, Cherry Blossom, and Marigold. -Thanks to Erin

Nicole Eggert was only 12 years old when she appeared as the little girl in the garden of Rose-Petal Place. Nicole is perhaps best known from her wholesome role in the 80's sitcom "Charles In Charge". After leaving the show, she got saline implants for her role as lifeguard Summer Quinn on Baywatch. However, she had them reduced a year later because she thought they were too big.

Marie Osmond (the voice of Rose-Petal) used to date Andy Gibb, but they broke up because her parents did not approve of the relationship. In 1999 she suffered with post partum depression. She said:"I basically gave the baby to the babysitter, gave her the creditcard, got in my car, and just really felt that my kids would be better if they did not have a mother. I just left never thinking I would come back, not really knowing where I was going or what I was going to do."

Renae Jacobs (the voices of Orchid and Lily Fair) also provided the voice of "April" for the very popular Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoons.

Renae Jacobs did the voice of Cherry Blossom in the second Rose Petal Place.. The "dolls" that are listed as not on the first show were new characters in the second one.

Renae Jacobs was also on The Moon Dreamers, My Pretty Pony, The Glow Friends, Punky Bruster (the Cartoon), The voice of Baby "Chuckie" in Bride of Chuckie also by David Kirschner among other shows...

Renae Jacobs was also the Mistress of the Maze on the Family Channel's Master of the Maze... -Thanks to Renae Jacobs

Marilyn Schreffler (the voice of Nastina) later went on to voice "Kala" in the 1986 hit The Golden Child. Marilyn unfortunately passed away two years later on January 7th 1988.

Sue Blu (the voice of Sunflower and Daffodil) played the role of Miss. Amanda Shepard in Friday The 13th Part VII:The New Blood.

Frank Welker (the voices of Seymour, P.D. and Horace) actually shared two roles with Leonard Nimoy. When the third season of the Transformers came around, Frank took the role of Galvatron that Nimoy had taken in the movie. And in Star Trek III Frank provided the screams of Nimoy's character Mr. Spock.

Some of the Rose-Petal Place merchandise included the Rose-Petal Roadster (a rosebud shaped car), the Rose-Petal Dollhouse cottage (I used to have this!), the dolls Pitter-Pat, Tumbles, and Nastina (I had the Nastina doll!). There were also some scratch-and-sniff books.

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The concept for Rose-Petal Place was created by David Kirschner and the cartoon was written by Mal Marmorstein. Kirschner began his career as an illustrator for Jim Henson's Muppets and Sesame Street characters. He was only 23 when he wrote and illustrated the Rose-Petal Place series of books. He, along with Steven Spielberg, executively produced the 1986 hit animated film "An American Tale".

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Marie Osmond does all of her own singing and brings a lot of vitality and life to the character of Rose-Petal.

The main score was written by Dean Elliott, and there are three songs in the film all written and composed by Greg Scelsa. The songs are:

"Friends" performed by Marie Osmond
"Sing A Happy Song" performed by Marie Osmond
"I Love To Hate" performed by by Marilyn Schreffler

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Rose Petal Place Movie Details
Year:
1984
Studio:
WorldVision Inc.
Director:
Charles A. Nichols
Starring:
Marie Osmond, Sue Blu, Frank Welker, Marilyn Schreffler, Candy Ann Brown, Renae Jacobs, Nicole Eggert
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cute animation, cute songs, a major throw back to my childhood.
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