I MARRIED AN ANGEL

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CREDITS

1942, 84 minutes, B&W.
Producer, Hunt Stromberg; Director, W.S. Van Dyke; Screenplay, Anita Loos; Cinematography, Ray June; Choreography, Ernst Matray.

CAST

Anna Zador/Briggitta, Jeanette MacDonald; Count Willie Pilaffi, Nelson Eddy; Peter, Edward Everett Horton; Peggy, Binnie Barnes; Whiskers, Reginald Owen; Baron Szigethy, Douglas Dumbrille; Marika, Mona Maris; Sufi, Janis Carter; Iren, Inez Cooper; Zinski, Leopold Kinskey; Polly, Anne Jeffreys; Dolly, Marion Rosamond.

SONGS

I Married An Angel; I'll Tell the Man in the Street; Spring Is Here; A Twinkle in Your Eye by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart; Tira Lira La by Rodgers, Bob Wright and Chet Forrest; Caprice Viennoise by Fritz Kreisler; Chanson Boheme by Bizet; lyrics by Wright and Forrest; Anges Purs by Gounod; Alohe Oe by Queen Liliukalani; Hey, Butcher; There Comes a Time; May I Present the Girl; Now You've Met the Angel; But What of Truth by Herbert Stothart, Wright and Forrest.

PLOT SYNOPSIS

"With a lilting 'Tira Lira La,' a bevy of Budapest beauties show up for the birthday celebration of the town's most eligible bachelor, Count Palaffi (Nelson Eddy). Weary of their scheming attentions, the wealthy playboy slips away to his room. . .and dreams the fanciful escape of I Married An Angel. That angel is Jeanette MacDonald. . .and the story has all the puffy-cloud imaginativeness you'd expect: the angel's heaven-above honesty makes a hilarious muck of the Count's here-below business activities. He awakens to find it was all a dream. . .but discovers the 'angel' at his party."
- Liner Notes from Turner/MGM-UA Videotape

NOTES

"Totally bereft of the satirical observations on love and marriage that helped it garner plaudits on Broadway, the show was akin to a suet pudding in consistency, and failed to please even MacDonald and Eddy's less discriminating admirers."
- Clive Hirschhorn, The Hollywood Musical

"Rodgers and Hart's sophisticated musical comedy was purchased for Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy when their popularity in stale-whipped-cream operetta was waning, but then MGM became nervous, removed the sophistication, and turned the musical comedy into something as bland as operetta but without its energy."
- Pauline Kael, 5001 Nights At The Movies


This was MacDonald and Eddy's final film together.

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