Naughty Marietta
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| Naughty Marietta | |
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| Image:258797.1020.A.jpg original film poster | |
| Directed by | Robert Z. Leonard W.S. Van Dyke |
| Produced by | Hunt Stromberg W.S. Van Dyke |
| Written by | Frances Goodrich Albert Hackett John Lee Mahin |
| Starring | Jeanette MacDonald Nelson Eddy Elsa Lanchester |
| Music by | Dimitri Tiomkin Victor Herbert |
| Cinematography | William H. Daniels |
| Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) |
| Running time | 105 min. |
| IMDb profile | |
Naughty Marietta is a 1935 movie based on the operetta of the same name by Victor Herbert: Jeanette MacDonald stars as a flirty, flighty Princess who trades places with her maid Marietta in order to avoid an arranged marriage. Instead, she sails for New Orleans and is rescued from pirates by Captain Richard Warrington (Nelson Eddy), with whom she falls in love.
Five of Victor Herbert's most famous songs come from the score of Naughty Marietta, with words by lyricist Rida Johnson Young:
- Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life
- The Italian Street Song
- 'Neath the Southern Moon
- I'm Falling in Love With Someone
- Tramp! Tramp! Tramp! (Along the Highway)
The film was written by Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett, John Lee Mahin and Rida Johnson Young. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. Douglas Shearer won the Academy Award for Sound for his work on the picture. In 2003 the United States Library of Congress deemed the film "culturally significant" and selected it for preservation in the National Film Registry.
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