NAUGHTY MARIETTA

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CREDITS

1935, 106 minutes, B&W.
Producer, Hunt Stromberg; Director, W.S. Van Dyke; Screenplay, John Lee Mahin, Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett; Cinematography, William Daniels; Art Direction; Cedric Gibbons.

CAST

Marietta, Jeanette MacDonald; Warrington, Nelson Eddy; Governor D'Annard, Frank Morgan; Madame D'Annard, Elsa Lanchaster; Uncle, Douglas Dumbrille; Herr Schuman, Joseph Cawthorne; Julie, Cecilia Parker; Don Carlos, Walter Kingsford; Frau Schuman, Greta Meyer; Rudolpho, Akim Tamiroff; Abe, Harold Huber; Zeke, Edward Brophy.

SONGS

Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life; I'm Falling in Love with Someone; Italian Street Song by Victor Herbert and Rida Johnson Young; Chansonette; Antionette and Anatola; Paryer; Tramp Tramp Tramp; The Owl and the Bob Cat; 'Neath the Southern Moon by Herbert and Gus Kahn; Mon Mai Pierrot.

PLOT SYNOPSIS

"This operetta tells of a group of girls the French government has endowed before they sail to Louisiana, there to find husbands and build up that colony. The princess (MacDonald) escapes with this group from her tyrannical uncle and the aged suitor he has selected. In New Orleans, she falls in love with the captain of the mercenaries (Eddy) and again escapes for a happy finish."
- Variety

NOTES

"Victor Herbert's Naughty Marietta. . .single-handedly restored the good name of operetta and ensured the genre's continued popularity for the remainder of the thirties, and even into the forties and fifties."
- Clive Hirschhorn, The Hollywood Musical

"Slow-moving operetta which singing must sustain."
- Variety

"It's an atrocity, of course, and one of the most spoofed of all the Jeanette MacDonald-Nelson Eddy operettas, yet it has vitality and a mad sort of appeal. When those two profiles come together as they sing "Ah, Sweet Mystery Of Life," it's beyond kitsch, it's in a realm of its own."
- Pauline Kael, 5001 Nights At The Movies


ACADEMY AWARD NOMINATION:
Best Picture

Winner of the PHOTOPLAY MEDAL OF HONOR.

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