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Jeanette Macdonald's

 Broadway, Films, Radio, Recitals, Opera, and Television Credits

 

 

What's My Line

Dec 21, 1952

(click pics to enlarge)

Movie Title       

Year  Jeanette's Character
The Love Parade (1929) Queen Louise (Pictures by JFMC)

   

(Pictures by JMFC Staff Curator Claire H.)

 

The Vagabond King (1930) Katherine           (Pictures by JFMC)

Let's Go Native (1930) Joan Wood
The Lottery Bride   (1930) Jenny
Monte Carlo (1930) Countess Vera
Oh, for a Man!  (1930)

Carlotta Manson
Don't Bet on Women (1931) Jeanne Drake
Annabelle's Affairs (1931) Annabelle Leigh       (Pictures by JFMC)

One Hour with You (1932) Colette Bertier         (Pictures by JFMC)

Love Me Tonight (1932) Princess Jeanette (Pictures by JFMC)

The Cat and the Fiddle (1934)

Shirley                     (Pictures by JFMC)

The Merry Widow (1934) Sonia/Fifi                   (Pictures by JFMC)

Naughty Marietta (1935)

Marietta  (Pictures by JMFC Staff Curator Claire H.)

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(Pictures by JFMC Friends)
Rose Marie (1936) Marie de Flor      (Pictures by JFMC)

 

San Francisco (1936) Mary Blake             (Pictures by JFMC)

Maytime (1937) Marcia Morney     (Pictures by JFMC)

      

The Firefly (1937) Nina Maria Azara   (Pictures by JFMC)

 

Girl of the Golden West (1938)

Mary Robbins              (Pictures by JFMC)

 

Sweethearts (1938) Gwen Marlowe             (Pictures by JFMC)

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Broadway Serenade (1939) Mary Hale                 (Pictures by JFMC)

New Moon

 (1940) Marianne                             (Pictures by JFMC)

Bitter Sweet (1940) Sarah/Sari Linden      (Pictures by JFMC)

Smilin' Through (1941) Kathleen/Moonyean      (Pictures by JFMC)

I Married an Angel (1942) Anna Zador/Brig        (Pictures by JFMC)

 (Pictures by JMFC Staff Curator Claire H.)

Cairo

(1942)

Marcia Warren               (Pictures by JFMC)

Follow the Boys (1944) Herself
Three Daring Daughters (1948) Louise Rayton Morgan        (Pictures by JFMC)

The Sun Comes Up (1949) Helen Lorfield Win          (Pictures by JFMC)

 

Here is a list of some of Jeanette's TV spots. 

 

Date                     TV Program       

 Nov 13, 1950    Voice of Firestone
 Dec 30, 1951    Toast of the Town (episode #5.17)

 Aug 05, 1951    Toast of the Town (episode #4.47)

 Dec 21, 1952    What's My Line

 Nov 12, 1952    This is Your Life
 Dec 21,  1955    The Big Parade Show (with Nelson) 

              1955    Faith of Our Children, (on Eleanor Powell's Show)
 Mar 13, 1955    Easter Seal Drive
 Feb  01, 1956    Screen Directors Playhouse "Prima Donna" (written by Gene Raymond)
 Feb  11, 1956    The Big Parade Show (with Nelson) 

 Mar 08, 1956    The Louella Parsons Story
 Dec  20, 1956    Lux Video Theatre "Hollywood's Musical Holiday Revue" (episode#7.13)

 Mar 28, 1957    Playhouse 90 "Charley's Aunt" (episode#1.26) (with Gene Raymond)
 Apr 21, 1957     Easter Sunrise Service  (from Hollywood Bowl)
 Sep 25, 1957     The Big Record > playing "Soprano Singer" (with Nelson) 

 Oct 31, 1958     Person To Person (With Edward R. Murrow)
 Spring  1961     Tony Thomas (Twin Gables Interview)
 Jun 22, 1963     Flashback Canadian TV Show
 Dec 02, 1963     Hollywood and the Stars
 Jan 14, 1965     Movie-go-round (with Ben Lyon (BBC)
 

 She also did other TV shows.  (If you know of others, please send them in to us, we would love to post them.)
  

Radio Performances
Date:          Mins: Station:

Program or Performance Name:

6/29/36

1     HR

CBS

LUX RADIO THEATRE, "IRENE," W/JEANETTE MacDONALD, Regis Toomey, A. Lake

1/25/37

1     HR

CBS

LUX RADIO THEATRE, "TONIGHT or NEVER” w/JEANETTE MacDONALD, M. Douglas,

L. Alberni.

9/37 to 3/38

1/2  HR

WABC

VICKS OPEN HOUSE Starring JEANETTE MacDONALD.

The Jeanette MacDonald Radio program aired on Sunday from 7:00 P.M. to 7:30 P.M. for 26 Weeks.

1/4/37

(First Show)

1     HR

NBC

GOOD NEWS OF 1938  W/JEANETTE MacDONALD,  R. Z. Leonard, B. Ebsen, G. Murphy, J. Garland, S. Tucker, A. Jones
12/14/38 1   HR NBC LUX RADIO THEATRE, AMERICA CALLING, W/JEANETTE MacDONALD, (all-star; Lionel Barrymore-
2/19/39   CBS GULF SCREEN GUILD SHOW, "SONG for CLOTHILDA" W/JEANETTE MacDONALD, R. Taylor.

1/5/42

 

CBS

LUX RADIO THEATRE, "SMILIN' THROUGH," W/JEANETTE MacDONALD, BRIAN AHERNE,  GENE RAYMOND

1/16/43 

 

AFRS
 

COMMAND PERFORMANCE, W/JEANETTE MacDONALD,

Virginia O'Brien,  Dale Evans, Eddie South & His Orchestra, Mills Brothers, Eddie  LeBaron Orchestra
7/10/43            AFRS
 

COMMAND PERFORMANCE W/JEANETTE MacDONALD, RONALD COLMAN, Ginny Simms, Ella Mae Morse, Jimmy Davis, Dick Ryan
9/6/43 AFRS

COMMAND PERFORMANCE W/JEANETTE MacDONALD, DINAH SHORE, Garry Moore, Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra
6/12/44 1    HR CBS

LUX RADIO THEATRE, "NAUGHTY MARIETTA," W/JEANETTE MacDONALD, NELSON EDDY
6/12/44 1/2 HR CBS

LUX RADIO THEATRE, "NAUGHTY MARIETTA," W/JEANETTE MacDONALD, NELSON EDDY
9/4/44 1    HR CBS

LUX RADIO THEATRE, "MAYTIME" W/JEANETTE MacDONALD, NELSON EDDY, E. Barrier.

9/9/44 1/2 HR AFRS

KENNY BAKER, W/JEANETTE MACDONALD
4-15-45 1/2 HR CBS

THE ELECTRIC HOUR SHOW W/NELSON EDDY, "FDR TRIBUTE"  JEANETTE MacDONALD,
4-22-45 1/2 HR CBS

THE ELECTRIC HOUR SHOW W/NELSON EDDY,   JEANETTE MacDONALD 

2-17-46 1/2 HR CBS

THE ELECTRIC HOUR SHOW W/NELSON EDDY,   JEANETTE MacDONALD substitutes for Eddy who is ill.
4-07-46 1/2 HR CBS

THE ELECTRIC HOUR SHOW W/NELSON EDDY,   JEANETTE MacDONALD 

3/25/46   CBS

LADY ESTHER SCREEN GUILD PLAYERS  “SWEETHEARTS” W/JEANETTE MacDONALD,

NELSON EDDY,

6/23/47   CBS

LADY ESTHER SCREEN GUILD PLAYERS  “ROSEMARIE” W/JEANETTE MacDONALD, NELSON EDDY,

12/15/47   CBS

CAMEL SCREEN GUILD PLAYERS “SWEETHEARTS” W/JEANETTE MacDONALD, NELSON EDDY
9/23/48   ABC

KRAFT MUSIC HALL W/JEANETTE MacDONALD, NELSON EDDY,

1-17-49 44:30Min. NBC

RAILROAD HOUR - GORDON MACRAE SHOW, "NAUGHTY MARIETTA"  JEANETTE MacDONALD,
1-31-49 44:30Min. NBC

RAILROAD HOUR - GORDON MACRAE SHOW, "BITTERSWEET"               JEANETTE MacDONALD,
3-7-49 44:30Min. NBC

RAILROAD HOUR - GORDON MACRAE SHOW, "THE MERRY WIDOW"   JEANETTE MacDONALD,
4-18-49 42:50Min. NBC

RAILROAD HOUR - GORDON MACRAE SHOW, "APPLE BLOSSOMS"     JEANETTE MacDONALD,
 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jeanette's Broadway Credits
Numerical No.

      SHOW TITLE

Year

 Theatre
1

THE NIGHT BOAT

Feb. 2 to Dec. 1920

  
2 TANGERINE (Replaced cast member in the musical) Sep. 1921 to Apr. 1922  
3

FANTASTIC FRICASSEE

Oct. 1922

 
4

THE MAGIC RING (Broadway Debut- 96 performances.  National tour ended May, 1925.)

2 year national Tour

Oct. 1, to Dec. 22, 1923

  
5

TIP TOES

Ira and George Gershwin musical (192 performances.)

Dec. 8, 1925 to Jun 12, 1926

 Liberty Theatre
6

BUBBLING OVER

August, 1926

 Garrick Theatre
7

YES, YES YVETTE: Staring Jeanette MacDonald as Yvette Ralston and Jack Whiting.

H. H. Frazee Production; Lyrics by Irving Caesar;

Music by Irving Caesar & Philip Charig

(Had 40 Broadway Performances.)

Toured 1926 to 1927

Opened on Broadway

Oct. 3 to Nov 5, 1927

 Adelphi Theatre
8

SUNNY DAYS (101 performances)

Feb. 8 to May 5, 1928

  
9

ANGELA (40 Performances.)

 Dec 3, 1928 to Jan. 5, 1929

  
10

Boom-Boom  (72 performances and a national tour.)

Jan. 28, 1929 to Mar. 30, 1929

  
11

The King and I

Aug. 20-Sep. 1956

  

 

Jeanette's Radio *Concert * Opera Credits
RADIO

VICK'S OPEN HOUSE

1937-38
RECITAL TOUR UNITED STATES 1939
RECITAL TOUR UNITED STATES 1940
RECITAL TOUR UNITED STATES 1941
RECITAL TOUR

UNITED STATES

(This tour she donated her entire proceeds to the Army Emergency Relief Fund)

 1942
OPERA (Opera Debut) His Majesty's Theater, Montreal) 1943
OPERA (Canadian Tour) ROMEO AND JULIET 1943
RECITAL TOUR UNITED STATES 1943
RECITAL TOUR UNITED STATES 1944
OPERA

ROMEO AND JULIET

(Chicago Civic Opera Company--American Debut)

 1944
OPERA

ROMEO AND JULIET

Chicago Civic Opera Company,  Milwaukee, Wisconsin)

 1944
OPERA ROMEO AND JULIET

(Chicago Civic Opera Company)

 1944
   
OPERA FAUST

(Chicago Civic Opera Company)

 1944
   

 

 

 

 

Gio,

Here is another list of movies credits of Jeanette's. with co-stars.

Fran

The Love Parade (Paramount, 1929). Produced and directed by Ernst Lubitsch. Songs: "Dream Lover," "My Love Parade," "March of the Grenadiers." Cast: Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald, Lupino Lane, Lillian Roth, Virginia Bruce, Jean Harlow (as an extra).

 

Tech Specs: Film negative format (mm/video inches) 35 mm Cinematographic process Spherical Printed film format 35 mm Aspect ratio 1.33 : 1

The Vagabond King (Paramount, 1930). Filmed in Technicolor. Music by Rudolph Friml. Songs: "Only a Rose," "Some Day," "Song of the Vagabonds," "If I Were King." Cast: Dennis King, Jeanette MacDonald, Lillian Roth, Warner Oland.

 

Tech Specs: Laboratory Technicolor, USA Film length (metres) 2870 m Film negative format (mm/video inches) 35 mm
Cinematographic process Spherical Printed film format 35 mm Aspect ratio 1.20 : 1
Paramount on Parade (Paramount, 1930) This was an all-star revue featuring most of the Paramount stars of the day. Some sequences were filmed in Technicolor, and several directors were involved. Jeanette was completely cut out of the American version, though in the Spanish version she served as Mistress of Ceremonies, and sang one number with David Newell while floating in a gondola along the Grand Canal.

Tech Specs: Laboratory Technicolor Film length (metres) 2781.3 m (13 reels) Film negative format (mm/video inches) 35 mm
Cinematographic process Spherical Printed film format 35 mm Aspect ratio 1.20 : 1
Lets Go Native (Paramount, 1930). Songs: "I've Got a Yen For You," "It Seems to Be Spring," "Let's Go Native," "My Mad Moment." Cast: Jeanette MacDonald, Jack Oakie, Kay Francis (she sings!).

Tech Specs: Film length (metres) 2068 m (9 reels) Film negative format (mm/video inches) 35 mm Cinematographic process
Spherical Printed film format 35 mm Aspect ratio 1.20 : 1
Monte Carlo (Paramount, 1930). Directed by Ernst Lubitsch. Songs include: "Beyond the Blue Horizon." Cast: Jack Buchanan, Jeanette MacDonald, Zasu Pitts.

Tech Specs: Film length (metres) 2277.5 m (10 reels) Film negative format (mm/video inches) 35 mm Cinematographic process
Spherical Printed film format 35 mm Aspect ratio 1.20 : 1
The Lottery Bride (UA, 1930) Finale filmed in Technicolor. Songs: "You're An Angel," "I'll Follow the Trail," "My Northern Light." Cast: Jeanette MacDonald, John Garrick, Joe E.Brown, Zasu Pitts, Robert Chisolm.

Tech Specs: Film negative format (mm/video inches) 35 mm Cinematographic process Spherical Printed film format 35 mm Aspect ratio 1.37 : 1
Oh, For a Man (Fox 1930). Jeanette sings Wagner's "Liebestod" from Tristan and Isolde and "On a Summer Night." Cast: Jeanette MacDonald, Reginald Denny, Bela Lugosi.

Tech Specs: Film negative format (mm/video inches) 35 mm Cinematographic process Spherical Printed film format 35 mm Aspect ratio 1.37 : 1
Dont Bet on Women (Fox, 1930). No songs. Cast: Edmund Lowe, Jeanette MacDonald, Roland Young.

Tech Specs: Film negative format (mm/video inches) 35 mm Cinematographic process Spherical Printed film format 35 mm Aspect ratio 1.37 : 1

Filmed in: Pasadena, CA,

Annabelle's Affairs (Fox, 1931): Song: "If Someone Should Kiss You." Cast: Victor McLaglen, Jeanette MacDonald, Roland Young, Sally Blane, Joyce Compton.

Tech Specs: Film negative format (mm/video inches) 35 mm Cinematographic process Spherical Printed film format 35 mm Aspect ratio 1.37 : 1
One Hour With You (Paramount, 1932). Produced and directed by Ernst Lubitsch and George Cukor. This was a remake of Lubitsch's 1924 film The Marriage Circle. Songs: "One Hour With You," "Oh, That Mitzi," "We Will Always Be Sweethearts," "What Would You Do," "Three Times a Day," "What a Thing Like a Wedding Ring Can Do." Cast: Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald, Genvieve Tobin, Charles Ruggles, Roland Young.

Tech Specs: Film negative format (mm/video inches) 35 mm Cinematographic process Spherical Printed film format 35 mm Aspect ratio 1.37 : 1
Love Me Tonight (Paramount, 1932). Produced and directed by Rouben Mamoulian. Rodgers & Hart songs: "Isn't It Romantic," "Mimi," "Love Me Tonight," "Lover." Cast: Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald, Myrna Loy. 
The Cat and the Fiddle (MGM, 1933). Based on the Jerome Kern-Otto Harbach musical play. Songs include "The Night Was Made for Love," "Try to Forget." Cast: Ramon Novarro, Jeanette MacDonald, Frank Morgan.

Tech Specs: Film length (metres) (9 reels) Film negative format (mm/video inches) 35 mm Cinematographic process Spherical
Printed film format 35 mm Aspect ratio 1.37 : 1
The Merry Widow (MGM, 1934). Produced and directed by Ernst Lubitsch. Based on Franz Lehar's operetta The Merry Widow. Songs: "Girls, Girls, Girls," "Maxim's," "Vilia," "Tonight Will Teach Me to Forget," "The Merry Widow Waltz." Cast: Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald, Edward Everett Horton, Una Merkel, Herman Bing.

Tech Specs: Film negative format (mm/video inches) 35 mm Cinematographic process Spherical Printed film format 35 mm Aspect ratio 1.37 : 1
Naughty Marietta (MGM, 1935). Directed by W.S. Van Dyke II. Victor Herbert songs include: "Chansonette," "Tramp, Tramp, Tramp," "Owl and the Bobcat," "'Neath the Southern Moon," "Italian Street Song, "Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life." Cast: Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy, Frank Morgan, Elsa Lanchester.

Tech Specs: Film length (metres) (11 reels) Film negative format (mm/video inches) 35 mm Cinematographic process Spherical
Printed film format 35 mm Aspect ratio 1.37 : 1
Rose Marie (MGM, 1936). Directed by W.S.Van Dyke II. Based on the Rudolph Friml-Herbert Stothart operetta. Songs: "Rose Marie," "Song of the Mounties," "Indian Love Call," "Totem Tom Tom," "Pardon Me Madame," "Just For You," Jeanette sings operatic excerpts from Gounod's "Romeo and Juliet" and Puccini's "Tosca." Cast: Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy, James Stewart, Allan Jones, David Niven, Herman Bing.

Tech Specs:  Film negative format (mm/video inches) 35 mm Cinematographic process Spherical Printed film format 35 mm Aspect ratio 1.37 : 1
San Francisco (MGM, 1936). Directed by W.S. Van Dyke II. Songs: "San Francisco," "Would You." Cast: Clark Gable, Jeanette MacDonald, Spencer Tracy, Jack Holt.

Tech Specs: Film negative format (mm/video inches) 35 mm Cinematographic process Spherical Printed film format 35 mm Aspect ratio 1.37 : 1
Maytime (MGM, 1937). Directed by Robert Z. Leonard. Songs: "Will You Remember" "Virginia Ham and Eggs," "Student Drinking Song," "Carry Me Back to Old Virginny," "Les Filles de Cadiz," Page's Aria from Les Huguenots by Meyerbeer, "Czaritza," based on Tschaikovsky's Fifth Symphony. Cast: Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy, John Barrymore, Herman Bing.

Tech Specs: Film negative format (mm/video inches) 35 mm Cinematographic process Spherical Printed film format 35 mm Aspect ratio 1.37 : 1
The Firefly (MGM, 1937). Directed by Robert Z. Leonard. Based on the Rudolph Friml operetta. Filmed in sepia. Songs include: "Love is Like a Firefly," "Sympathy," "Giannina Mia," "Donkey Serenade." Cast: Jeanette MacDonald, Allan Jones, Warren William, Douglas Dumbrille.

Tech Specs: Film negative format (mm/video inches) 35 mm Cinematographic process Spherical Printed film format 35 mm Aspect ratio 1.37 : 1
Girl of the Golden West (MGM, 1938). Directed by Robert Z. Leonard. Songs by Sigmund Romberg and Gus Kahn include: "Soldiers of Fortune," "Shadows on the Moon," "Obey Your Heart." Filmed in sepia. Cast: Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy, Walter Pigeon, Leo Carrillo, Buddy Ebsen.

Tech Specs: Film length (metres) (12 reels) Film negative format (mm/video inches) 35 mm Cinematographic process Spherical
Printed film format 35 mm Aspect ratio 1.37 : 1
Sweethearts (MGM, 1938). Directed by W.S. Van Dyke II. Based on the Victor Herbert operetta. Filmed in Technicolor (and won a special Oscar). Songs include: "For Ev'ry Lover Must Meet His Fate," "Sweethearts," "Pretty as a Picture," "Summer Serenade," "On Parade," "Little Grey Home in the West." Cast: Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger, Herman Bing.

Tech Specs: Laboratory Technicolor, USA Film negative format (mm/video inches) 35 mm Cinematographic process Spherical
Printed film format 35 mm Aspect ratio 1.37 : 1
Broadway Serenade (MGM, 1939). Produced and directed by Robert Z. Leonard. Finale sequence staged by Busby Berkeley. Songs: "For Every Lonely Heart," "Rhapsody," "Flying High," "One Look At You," "Un Bel Di" from "Madame Butterfly. Cast: Jeanette MacDonald, Lew Ayres, Ian Hunter, Frank Morgan.

Tech Specs: Film negative format (mm/video inches) 35 mm Cinematographic process Spherical Printed film format 35 mm Aspect ratio 1.37 : 1
New Moon (MGM, 1940). Produced and directed by Robert Z. Leonard. Based on the Sigmund Romberg operetta. Songs: "Lover, Come Back to Me," "Wanting You," "Softly as in a Morning Sunrise," "Stouthearted Men," "One Kiss," "Marianne." Cast: Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy, Mary Boland, George Zucco, H.B. Warner.

Tech Specs:  Film negative format (mm/video inches) 35 mm Cinematographic process Spherical Printed film format 35 mm Aspect ratio 1.37 : 1
Bitter Sweet (MGM, 1940). Directed by W.S. Van Dyke II, based on the Noel Coward play. Filmed in Technicolor. Songs: "Ziguener," "If You Could Only Come With Me," "Kiss Me," "I'll See You Again, "Dear Little Cafe," "What is Love," "Ladies of the Town," "Tokay," "Love in Any Language." Cast: Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy, George Sanders, Ian Hunter, Herman Bing.

Tech Specs: Film negative format (mm/video inches) 35 mm Cinematographic process Spherical Printed film format 35 mm Aspect ratio 1.37 : 1
Smilin' Through (MGM, 1941). Directed by Frank Borzage. Filmed in Technicolor. Songs: "Smilin' Through," "Just a Little Love, a Little Kiss," Bizet's "Ouvre Ton Coeur," "The Kerry Dance," "Hope and Glory," "Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes." Cast: Jeanette MacDonald, Brian Aherne, Gene Raymond, Ian Hunter.

Tech Specs: Film length (metres) (11 reels) Film negative format (mm/video inches) 35 mm Cinematographic process Spherical
Printed film format 35 mm Aspect ratio 1.37 : 1
 I Married An Angel (MGM, 1942). Directed by W.S.Van Dyke II. Songs: "I Married An Angel," "Spring is Here," "I'll Tell the Man in the Street," "A Twinkle in Your Eye." Cast: Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy, Edward Everett Horton, Binnie Barnes.

Tech Specs: Film negative format (mm/video inches) 35 mm Cinematographic process Spherical Printed film format 35 mm Aspect ratio 1.37 : 1
Cairo (MGM, 1942). Directed by W.S. Van Dyke II. Songs: "The Maid from Cadiz," "Buds Won't Bud," "A Woman Without a Man," "Keep the Light Burning Bright in the Harbor," "Cairo." Cast: Jeanette MacDonald, Robert Young, Ethel Waters, Lionel Atwill, Dooley Wilson.  

Tech Specs: Film length (metres) 2760.88 m Film negative format (mm/video inches) 35 mm Cinematographic process Spherical
Printed film format 35 mm Aspect ratio 1.37 : 1
Follow the Boys (Universal, 1944). Jeanette played herself in an all-star revue, singing two numbers, "Beyond the Blue Horizon" and "I'll See You In My Dreams". 
 Three Daring Daughters (MGM, 1948). Filmed in Technicolor. Songs: "The Dickey Bird song," "Route 66," "You Made Me Love You," "Sweethearts," Grieg's "Springtide." Cast: Jeanette MacDonald, Jose Iturbi, Jane Powell, [Mary] Elinor Donahue, Moyna MacGill (Angela Lansbury's mother).

Tech Specs: Film negative format (mm/video inches) 35 mm Cinematographic process Spherical Printed film format 35 mm Aspect ratio 1.37 : 1
The Sun Comes Up (MGM, 1949). Music by Andre Previn. Filmed in Technicolor. Songs: "Un Bel Di" from "Madame Butterfly," "Songs My Mother Taught Me," "Tes Jolies Yeux," "Cousin Ebenezer," "Romance." Cast: Jeanette MacDonald, Claude Jarman, Jr., Lassie, Lloyd Nolan, Percy Kilbride, Margaret Hamilton.

Tech Specs: Film negative format (mm/video inches) 35 mm Cinematographic process Spherical Printed film format 35 mm Aspect ratio 1.37 : 1

Fran

~Belive In Your Dreams!~

 

 

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Sweethearts (1938)Staring Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy in their 5th film:


The time-worn stage chestnut is a "play-within-a-film" for this frothy Jeanette MacDonald/Nelson Eddy musical comedy, written by Dorothy Parker and Alan Campbell. MacDonald and Eddy play a married acting couple who plan to leave Broadway for Hollywood, but impresario Frank Morgan plots to stop them. With Ray Bolger, Florence Rice, Mischa Auer.

Run time:120 min.

Category: Musicals

Director: W.S. Van Dyke

Cast: Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy,

Mischa Auer, Irving Bacon, George Barbier, Don Barclay, Joan Barclay, Ray Bolger, Lucille Browne, Berton Churchill, Edward Earle, James Flavin, Reginald Gardiner, Fay Holden, Margaret Irving, Allyn Joslyn, Suzanne Kaaren, Gene Lockhart, Frank Morgan, Barbara Pepper, Florence Rice, Dick Rich, Ralph Sanford, Richard Tucker, Raymond Walburn, Lucile Watson, Toby Wing

Academy Award® Nominee: Best Sound, Best Score

New Moon (1940) Staring Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy in their sixth film:

 

(Release Dates: USA-July 19,1940; Sweden-Februay 4,1941; Finland-April 13, 1941; Denmark- June 29,1951)

 

Set just after the French Revolution, this operetta tells the story of a duke who gives up his title to further the cause of equality in his nation's colonies. Pretending to be a servant named Charles Michon, he travels by ship to New Orleans, and while on board, meets Marianne de Beaumanoir. Believing he's a naval officer, Marianne falls in love with Charles, but when his real identity is exposed after they arrive in Louisiana, she sends him away. Disillusioned and heartbroken, both leave America on separate vessels, but a sea battle and then a shipwreck brings them together again. Reunited on a remote island, they come to realize their true feelings for each other.

 

Featured songs: "One Kiss," "Wanting You," "Lover Come Back to Me," "Stouthearted Men," "Softly as in a Morning Sunrise," "Marianne," "Tavern Scene (Take a Flower)," "Gorgeous Alexander," "Funny Little Sailor Men." "Soon I Will Be Done" -- composer unknown.

 

This operetta is based on the 1928 Broadway stage production. A different film version, set in Russia, was made in 1931 starring Grace Moore and Lawrence Tibbett.

 

Run Time:106 min.

Category: Musicals

Produced and Directed by: Robert Z. Leonard

Screenplay: Robert Arthur and Jacques Deval (based on the operetta "The New Moon" by Sigmund Romberg, Oscar Hammerstein II, Frank Mandel and Lawrence Schwab)

Music Director: Herbert Stothart

Song Score: Sigmund Romberg and Oscar Hammerstein II

Choreography: Val Raset

Art Directors: Cedric Gibbons and Eddie Imazu

 

Cast: Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy,

Trevor Bardette, Mary Boland, Hillary Brooke, Cecil Cunningham, Gerald Fielding, Stanley Fields, Fred Graham, Dorothy Granger, Edward Hearn, George Irving, Claude King, Grant Mitchell, Forbes Murray, Ed O'Neill, Jack Perrin, Dick Purcell, Claire Rochelle, Ray Walker, H.B. Warner, Robert Warwick, Joe Yule, George Zucco

 

The steamboat sequences were filmed at Santa Catalina Island, California.

Additional cast: Lorraine Bridges (vocal stand-in for Jeanette MacDonald), Austin Grant (solo bits on "Stouthearted Men").

Additional credits: Marvin Stuart (assistant director), Hugh Boswell (assistant director).

Bitter Sweet (1940) Staring Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy in their 7th film:

(USA 8 November 1940 Sweden 4 August 1941 Finland 6 September 1942 Denmark 7 August 1950)

Synopsis:

In the style of the great "Maytime", director W.S.Van Dyke adapted the original operetta by Noel Coward. The movie is a glamorous, romantic piece, with a magnificent photography, wonderful songs and a pair of unforgettable stars, Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy. Music, tragedy, love, all the elements are present in this beautiful picture, a joy for the moviegoer. Nelson and Jeanette sang with passion and his magic is beyond the scenes, his magic truly touched our hearts. In the seventh screen pairing of Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy are the ingredients for movie magic.

Carl is Sarah's singing teacher who is also pining for her with his hidden affection. This is their last lesson as Sarah, even with her secret love for Carl, will marry the snobbish uptight Harry Daventry. Finally performing "What is Love" for a group of Guests at a party given on the eve of her wedding, Carl reveals to Sarah that he is leaving to return to his home of Vienna and will not be able to attend her wedding. With this knowledge, Sarah decides she must reveal her true affection and Carl responds by stealing her away from the wedding date to wed him. They travel to Vienna where Carl works hard on writing his operetta. Finally finished he works on getting his operetta noticed while he and his wife work at a café. Noticed by a Baron who is never discouraged, Sarah, now fearful that her reputation will be ruined and her relationship with her husband destroyed, she decides to quit working as a dancer/singer/companion at the café but when told that Herr Wyler, a luck-stricken impresario, will appear at the café for that night to hear Carl's songs, she decides to work that last night and sing the songs Carl has written in his operetta. Arriving there, she performs for the famous impresario and while she prances with the beat of the song she is caught in dance by her spiteful baron who holds her too close and forces a kiss. Seeing this, Carl runs to her side and punches the Baron who threatens revenge with his sword. With one sloppy swing, Carl is struck and dies on the dance floor. Herr Wyler produces the operetta and Sarah performs the main character and hears her husbands voice singing with her -- but without her husband, it is a bittersweet victory.

Songs included:

"Ziguener" (Sung by Jeanette) "If you could only come with me" (Sung by Nelson) - "Dear Little Café" (Sung by Jeanette and Nelson) "What is Love" (Sung by Jeanette) "I'll See you again" (Sung by Jeanette and Nelson) "Ladie of the Town" (Sung by Jeanette) "Tokay" (Sung by Nelson and Chorus) "Love in any Language" (Sung by Jeanette)

 

Run Time: 94 min.

Category: Musicals

Produced: Victor Saville

Director: W.S. Van Dyke

Writing credits: Noel Coward (play) Lesser Samuels

Original music by Noel Coward

Musical director: Herbert Stothart ....

Recording director: Douglas Shearer ....

Art Direction: Cedric Gibbons

Costumes Designs: Adrian (gowns) and Gile Steele (men's costumes)

Makeup Department: Jack Dawn (I) makeup designer; Sydney Guilaroff hair stylist: Miss MacDonald

Production Dates July - September 1940 (Copyright Holder Loew's, Inc.,Nov. 14, 1940 * LP10114)

Cast: Jeanette MacDonald … Sarah Millick, Nelson Eddy … Carl Linden,

George Sanders .... Baron Von Tranisch, Ian Hunter (I) .... Lord Shayne, Felix Bressart .... Max, Edward Ashley .... Harry Daventry, Lynne Carver .... Dolly, Diana Lewis (I) .... Jane, Curt Bois .... Ernst, Fay Holden .... Mrs. Millick, Sig Ruman .... Herr Schlick (as Sig Rumann), Janet Beecher .... Lady Daventry, Charles Judels .... Herr Wyler, Veda Ann Borg .... Manon, Herman Bing .... Market Keeper, Greta Meyer .... Mama Luden, Max Barwyn .... Bartender, (uncredited), Art Berry Sr. .... Cabbie (uncredited), Margaret Bert .... Woman on Stairs (uncredited), Paul E. Burns .... Lathered Man (uncredited), Colin Campbell (I) .... Sir Arthur Feuchurch (uncredited), Jack Chefe .... Waiter (uncredited), Davison Clark .... Casino Attendant (uncredited), Hans Conried .... Rudolph, Man at Mama Luden's (uncredited), Jeff Corey .... Second Man on Stairs (uncredited), Gino Corrado .... Waiter (uncredited), Jean De Briac .... Croupier (uncredited), John Hendrick .... Fritz, at Mama Luden's (uncredited), Hans Joby .... Third Man on Stairs (uncredited), Armand Kaliz .... Headwaiter (uncredited), Louis Natheaux .... Officer Catching Von Tranisch (uncredited), Paul Oman .... Violinist (uncredited), Sam Savitsky .... Bearded Man (uncredited), Lester Sharpe .... First man on stairs (as Lester Scharff), Julius Tannen .... Schlick's Companion (uncredited), Ruth Tobey .... Market Keeper's Daughter (uncredited), Philip Winter .... Edgar, Sarah's Dancing Partner (uncredited).

 

Academy Award®

Nominees:

Best Cinematography (Color), Best Interior Decoration (Color)

Allen M. Davey (I) Oliver T. Marsh

Best Art Direction, Color John S. Detlie Cedric Gibbons

Trivia and Tidbits:

Taglines for Bitter Sweet (1940)

A musical triumph!

Filled with Noel Coward's songs and harmonies of "America's Sweethearts."

Nelson Eddy, an expert fencer, had to learn how to lose in a dual, saying, "Losing is tougher than winning."

 

Jeanette MacDonald, protecting her face from the sun, got her back tanned, thus having to have the Hungarian costume she wears in the finale designed with a high neck. She made it a point to keep her face towards the camera as much as possible.

I Married an Angel (1942) Staring Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy

in their 8th and last film:

 

"With a lilting 'Tira Lira La,' a bevy of Budapest beauties show up for the birthday celebration of the town's most eligible bachelor, Count Palaffi (Nelson Eddy). Weary of their scheming attentions, the wealthy playboy slips away to his room. . .and dreams the fanciful escape of I Married An Angel. That angel is Jeanette MacDonald. . .and the story has all the puffy-cloud imaginativeness you'd expect: the angel's heaven-above honesty makes a hilarious muck of the Count's here-below business activities. He awakens to find it was all a dream. . .but discovers the 'angel' at his party."

 

I Married An Angel; I'll Tell the Man in the Street; Spring Is Here; A Twinkle in Your Eye by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart; Tira Lira La by Rodgers, Bob Wright and Chet Forrest; Caprice Viennoise by Fritz Kreisler; Chanson Boheme by Bizet; lyrics by Wright and Forrest; Anges Purs by Gounod; Alohe Oe by Queen Liliukalani; Hey, Butcher; There Comes a Time; May I Present the Girl; Now You've Met the Angel; But What of Truth by Herbert Stothart, Wright and Forrest.

 

1942,

Run Time: 84 minutes,

Category : Musical

Produced: Hunt Sstromber

Directory : Maj. W.S. Van Dyke

Writing credits: Anita Loos

Cinematography: Ray June

Choreography: Ernst Matray

 

Cast: Jeanette MacDonald … Anna Zador/Briggitta,

Nelson Eddy … Count Willie Pilaffi,

Peter, Edward Everett Horton; Peggy, Binnie Barnes; Whiskers, Reginald Owen; Baron Szigethy, Douglas Dumbrille; Marika, Mona Maris; Sufi, Janis Carter; Iren, Inez Cooper; Zinski, Leopold Kinskey; Polly, Anne Jeffreys; Dolly, Marion Rosamond.

 

NOTES

I Married An Angel (Angyalt Vettem Feleseguil) hit in Budapest 1932 by Janos Vaszary.

I Married An Angel, 1933, unproduced movie

Musical Numbers:

Opening (Love Is Queen, Love Is King)

Face The Facts

Animated Objects

Why Have You Eyes?

I Married An Angel

Bath And Dressmaking Sequence

Re-used

Tell Me I Know How To Love

Overview:

From February to April 1933, Rodgers & Hart teamed with Moss Hart on a musical adaptation of an Hongarian play about a banker whose wish comes true when he married and angel. The film - I Married An Angel (MGM production #1116) - was intended as a vehicle for Jeanette MacDonald. It was jettisoned, according to Rodgers, when Metro boss Louis B. Mayer decided that fantasies were uncommercial. In 1938 I Married An Angel became a Broadway musical and used some of the material written in 1933. Four years later it became a film musical starring Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald.

 

I Married An Angel on Broadway

Adapted from the play by Janos Vaszary

Lyrics by Lorenz Hart

Music by Richard Rodgers

Produced by Dwight Deere Wiman

Book by Lorenz Hart and Richard Rodgers

Directed by Joshua Logan

Choreoghraphy George Balanchine

It ran for 338 performances.

Musical Numbers:

Did You Ever Get Stung?, The Modiste, How To Win Friends And Influence People, Spring Is Here, Angel Without Wings, A Twinkle In Your Eyes, At The Roxy Music Hall, Re-used I Married an Angel, Women Are Women (probably Love Is Queen, Love Is King), Men Of Milwaukee(Unused), Othello (Unused)

Starring: Dennis King, Vera Zorina, Vivienne Segal, Walter Slezak and Charles Walter

Reviews for Broadway Productions:

NEW YORK TIMES, 1938:

"One of the best musical comedies for many seasons...it perches on the top shelf of the Rodgers & Hart music cabinet."

 

NEW YORK POST, 1995:

It's a lovely idea for a stage musical. Hart's lyrics have verve, wit and a springtime poetry. Rodgers' music is fresh and alive, and the book (by the two of them) is surprisingly urbane and sophisticated."

Reviews for 1942 Film Version:

"Totally bereft of the satirical observations on love and marriage that helped it garner plaudits on Broadway, the show was akin to a suet pudding in consistency, and failed to please even MacDonald and Eddy's less discriminating admirers."

Clive Hirschhorn, The Hollywood Musical

 

"Rodgers and Hart's sophisticated musical comedy was purchased for Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy when their popularity in stale-whipped-cream operetta was waning, but then MGM became nervous, removed the sophistication, and turned the musical comedy into something as bland as operetta but without its energy."

Pauline Kael, 5001 Nights At The Movies

 

 

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