SWEETHEARTS

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CREDITS

1938, 120 minutes, Technicolor.
Producer, Hunt Stromberg; Director, W.S. Van Dyke; Screenplay, Dorothy Parker and Alan Campbell; Cinematography, Oliver Marsh; Music Direction, Herbert Stothart; Sound, Douglas Shearer; Art Direction, Cedric Gibbons; Costumes, Adrian; Choreography, Albertina Rasch.

CAST

Gwen Marlowe, Jeanette MacDonald; Ernest Lane, Nelson Eddy; Felix Lehman, Frank Morgan; Hans, Ray Bolger; Kay Jordan, Florence Rice; Leo Kronk, Mischa Auer; Oscar Engel, Herman Bing; Norman Trumpett, Reginald Gardiner; Hannah, Fay Holden; Dink, Allyn Joslyn.

SONGS

Wooden Shoes; Every Lover Must Meet His Fate; Sweethearts; Summer Serenade; Pretty As a Picture; On Parade; Game of Love by Victor Herbert; new lyrics by Bob Wright and Chet Forrest; The Message to the Violet; Keep It Dark by Gustav Luders and Frank Pixley; Little Gray Home in the West by Herman Lohr and D. Eradley-Wilmot; In the Convent They Never Taught Me by Herbert and Robert B. Smith; Happy Day by Herbert Stothart, Wright and Forrest.

PLOT SYNOPSIS

"Gwen and Ernest Lane [are] a popular Broadway team still passionately in love despite six years of marriage and 2,946 performances of Sweethearts. But life changes for the pair when Hollywood beckons. Fearful stage moguls try to thwart their move to Tinseltown by planting a rumor about Ernest and his secretary - a create a brouhaha of mirth and mix-ups that tests the sweetheart's love."
- Liner Notes from MGM/Turner Laserdisc

NOTES

"Sweethearts was the first three-color Technicolor picture made by MGM - and ravishing it was too
. . .a glorious wedding cake of a musical. . ."
- Clive Hirschhorn, The Hollywood Musical

"It will disappoint because of length, and general lethargy and sameness of production values."
- Variety

"One of the liveliest of the Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy musicals. . .it has startling color costuming by Adrian."
- Pauline Kael, 5001 Nights At The Movies

ACADEMY AWARD NOMINATIONS:
Sound Recording
Scoring

ACADEMY AWARD WINNER:
Special Award for Color Cinematography

Winner of the 1938 PHOTOPLAY MEDAL OF HONOR

Sweethearts was one of the top-grossing films of 1938. See Box Office Hits

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