Naughty Marietta (1935)

Directed by

W. S. Van Dyke, Robert Z. Leonard

Genre

musical film, romance film, pirate film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 45m

Rated

NR

Rating

5.5 of 10 from 24 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A princess runs away from an arranged marriage and sails to New Orleans. She meets a captain who rescues her from pirates, and they fall in love.

romanticwhimsicalplayfulold-fashionedlightheartedmusicalswashbucklingsweet

What happens

Naughty Marietta is a 1935 American romantic musical film based on the 1910 operetta of the same name by Victor Herbert. Jeanette MacDonald stars as a princess who flees an arranged marriage. She sails for New Orleans and is rescued from pirates by Captain Richard Warrington (Nelson Eddy). Five of Herbert's most famous songs come from the score of Naughty Marietta, with words by lyricist Rida Johnson Young: "Ah! Sweet Mystery of Life", "Italian Street Song", "Neath the Southern Moon", "I'm Falling in Love with Someone" and "Tramp! Tramp! Tramp! (Along the Highway)". Additional lyrics for several of Herbert's songs were penned for the film by Gus Kahn. The film was written by Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett, John Lee Mahin and Rida Johnson Young. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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