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Victor Herbert's Naughty Marietta, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer presents ; a W.S. Van Dyke production ; screen play by John Lee Mahin, Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett ; produced by Hunt Stromberg ; directed by W.S. Van Dyke

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Victor Herbert's Naughty Marietta

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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer presents ; a W.S. Van Dyke production ; screen play by John Lee Mahin, Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett ; produced by Hunt Stromberg ; directed by W.S. Van Dyke

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The musical that launched a legendary team. With their splendid voices, matinee-idol looks, vivacity (she) and stoutheartedness (he), Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy were America's Singing Sweethearts, "a true team, mixing the chemistry that permits one to accept disguised princesses, dream melodies and beautiful doom" (Ethan Mordden, The Hollywood Musical). Naughty Marietta is their first film together, a blithe tale of a French princess who arrives incognito in colonial New Orleans and falls into the manly arms of a captain with one terrific baritone. The soaring Victor Herbert melodies -- including Ah Sweet Mystery of Life and Tramp, Tramp, Tramp -- became forever identified with the stars. This 1935 Best Picture Academy Award nominee and Oscar winner for Best Sound Recording remains a Hollywood milestone and a total delight.--ContainerA French princess flees to New Orleans and masquerades as a lower-class woman to avoid marrying a nobleman she doesn't love. In bayou country she falls for a swaggering soldier, who wards off pirates and a king to keep her

Main feature -- Audio vault. On the MGM recording stage with Nelson and Jeanette (January, 1935) -- Lux Radio Theater broadcast 6/12/1944 -- Trailer

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Naughty Marietta