Naughty Marietta (1935)
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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 route, MacDonald and the other brides are captured by pirates, but are rescued by mercenary Eddy and his roistering companions. To avoid marrying some lowly farmer or frontiersman, simon-pure MacDonald intimates that she is a woman with a "history," which makes her attractive to the glitterati of old New Orleans. Only Eddy sees through MacDonald's feigned "naughtiness," and in the end claims her for his own. The most memorable of the Herbert songs retained for the film version of Naughty Marietta was "Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life", which remained one of Jeanette MacDonald's signature tunes ever afterward. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Complete Cast:
- Jeanette MacDonald - Princess Marie de Namours de la Bonfain, "Marietta Fr
- Frank Morgan - Governor Gaspard d'Annard
- Douglas Dumbrille - Uncle
- Walter Kingsford - Don Carlos de Braganza
- Billy Dooley - Marietta's Drunk "Brother"
- Edward Norris - Marie's Suitor
- Dr. Edouard Lippe - Innkeeper
- Olive Carey - Mme. Renavant
- Constantine Romanoff - Pirate
- Jack Mower - Nobleman
- Linda Parker - Casquette Girl
- Delos Jewkes - Priest on Dock
- William Burress - Bouget, Petshop Keeper
- Mary Foy - Duenna
- Richard Powell - Herald
- Henry Roquemore - Herald
- Roger Gray - Sergeant
- Louis Mercier - Duelist
- Ben Hall - Mama's Boy
- Nelson Eddy - Capt. Richard Warrington
- Elsa Lanchester - Mme. d'Annard
- Joseph Cawthorn - Herr Schuman
- James C. Morton - Barber
- Harold Huber - Abraham "Abe"
- Harry Tenbrook - Prospective Groom
- Bob McKenzie - Town Crier
- Guy Usher - Ship's Captain
- Greta Meyer - Frau Schuman
- William Moore - Suitor
- Edward S. Brophy - Ezekiel Cramer "Zeke"
- William Desmond - Gendarme Chief
- Helen Shipman - Marietta Franini
- Ed Brady - Mercenary Scout
- Cora Sue Collins - Felice
- Walter Long - Pirate Leader
- Cecilia Parker - Julie
- Wilfred Lucas - Herald at Ball
- Akim Tamiroff - Rudolpho, Puppet Master
- Director(s):
- W.S. Van Dyke
- Writer(s):
- John Lee Mahin, Albert Hackett, Frances Goodrich
- Producer(s):
- Hunt Stromberg
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