Naughty Marietta (1935)
- Starring:
- Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy, (more)
- Director(s):
- W.S. Van Dyke
Synopsis of Naughty Marietta
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, Rovi
Complete Cast of Naughty Marietta
- 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"
- Akim Tamiroff - Rudolpho, Puppet Master
- Richard Powell - Herald
- William Burress - Bouget, Petshop Keeper
- Helen Shipman - Marietta Franini
- Guy Usher - Ship's Captain
- Greta Meyer - Frau Schuman
- Walter Long - Pirate Leader
- Harry Tenbrook - Prospective Groom
- Edward Norris - Marie's Suitor
- Wilfred Lucas - Herald at Ball
- Delos Jewkes - Priest on Dock
- Cora Sue Collins - Felice
- William Moore - Suitor
- Edward S. Brophy - Ezekiel Cramer "Zeke"
- Nelson Eddy - Capt. Richard Warrington
- Elsa Lanchester - Mme. d'Annard
- Joseph Cawthorn - Herr Schuman
- James C. Morton - Barber
- Ben Hall - Mama's Boy
- Bob McKenzie - Town Crier
- William Desmond - Gendarme Chief
- Mary Foy - Duenna
- Jack Mower - Nobleman
- Constantine Romanoff - Pirate
- Olive Carey - Mme. Renavant
- Roger Gray - Sergeant
- Cecilia Parker - Julie
- Louis Mercier - Duelist
- Harold Huber - Abraham "Abe"
- Ed Brady - Mercenary Scout
- Henry Roquemore - Herald
- Dr. Edouard Lippe - Innkeeper
- Linda Parker - Casquette Girl
- Director(s):
- W.S. Van Dyke
- Writer(s):
- Frances Goodrich, John Lee Mahin, Albert Hackett
- Producer(s):
- Hunt Stromberg
- 1935 - Film Daily - 10 Best Films
- 1935 - Photoplay - Award
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