Carlotta Manson is a young and beautiful opera star who wants some spice in her personal life. She threatens to forsake opera for a wild, romantic fling. Read More »
Tag Archives: Jeanette MacDonald
The Girl of the Golden West (1938) Robert Z. Leonard, Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy, Walter Pidgeon
Mary Robbins is a moderately educated, beautiful, young woman who owns the saloon called “The Poker”. Read More »
Rose-Marie (1936) W.S. Van Dyke, Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy, Reginald Owen
Opera singer (Marie de Flor) seeks out fugitive brother in the Canadian wilderness. Read More »
The Vagabond King (1930) Ludwig Berger, Ernst Lubitsch, Dennis King, Jeanette MacDonald, O.P. Heggie, Musical, Romance
The story takes place in medieval France. Poet-rogue Francois Villon, sentenced to hang by King Louis XI for writing derogatory verses about him, is offered a temporary reprieve. Read More »
One Hour with You (1932) George Cukor, Ernst Lubitsch, Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald, Genevieve Tobin, Comedy, Musical, Romance
Andre and Colette Bertier are happily married. When Colette introduces her husband to her flirtatious best friend, Mitzi, he does his best to resist her advances. Read More »
The Love Parade (1929) Ernst Lubitsch, Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald, Lupino Lane, Comedy, Musical, Romance
Queen Louise’s cabinet are worried that she will become an old maid, and are delighted when she marries the rougish Count Renard. Read More »
Monte Carlo (1930) Ernst Lubitsch, Jeanette MacDonald, Jack Buchanan, Claud Allister, Comedy, Musical, Romance
Minutes before her wedding to Duke Otto Von Seibenheim, Countess Helene Mara flees, on a whim, to Monte Carlo, where she hopes her luck will save her poor financial state. There, Count Rudolph Farriere is taken by her beauty, but she rebuffs him, not even looking at him.
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