Producer: Hunt Stromberg & W.S. Van Dyke
Director: Robert Z. Leonard & W.S. Van Dyke
Awards: It won the Best Sound Oscar and was nominated for Best Picture. It has also been awarded the Photoplay Medal of Honor and was placed on the National Film Registry in 2003.
Release Date: March 29th, 1935.
Origination: Based on the 1910 operetta written by Victor Herbert.
Interesting Fact: For this film Frank Morgan was required to shave his mustache. He had not shaved for seventeen years and grew it back again for his future films.
Richard: Who are you?
Marietta: Someone.
This was the first time that the world fell in love with Nelson Eddy & Jeanette MacDonald. They would go on to be in seven other films together. I have written about the "singing sweethearts" in an earlier post if you wish to find out more about them. This film also brought to us the famous "Ah! Sweet Mystery of Life." This song became a sort-of theme song for MGM and was sung at Louis B. Mayer's funeral. The scene where Jeanette's character is waiving goodbye to a random person on the dock has become a common farewell in our family, "Bye, Brother!" It has romance, adventure and memorable songs. This is a defiant must-see.
HAVE YOU SEEN THIS MOVIE?
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