Naughty Marietta
Summary:
The first of MGM's phenomenally profitable Jeanette MacDonald-Nelson Eddy musicals, Naughty Marietta takes several beneficial liberties with the libretto of the original Victor Herbert operetta. MacDonald plays an 18th-century French princess who escapes an arranged marriage by posing as a "cake girl," a mail-order bride sent to the New World to marry a colonist. En rou... Full Summary >>
Cast:
Jeanette MacDonald - (Princess Marie de Namours de la Bonfain, "Marietta Fr)
Nelson Eddy - (Capt. Richard Warrington)
Frank Morgan - (Governor Gaspard d'Annard)
Elsa Lanchester - (Mme. d'Annard)
Douglas Dumbrille - (Uncle)
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Review:
Naughty Marietta was the first pairing of Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy, who together defined forever the film operetta, fixing in most people's minds an image of overwrought vocalizing, stiff and/or stuffy acting, ridiculous plots and period settings. Well, Marietta's setting is most definitely period, and no one will ever go to b... Continue >>
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