Maytime (1937)

Directed by

Robert Z. Leonard

Genre

drama film, musical film, romance film, romantic comedy

Country

United States

Runtime

2h 12m

Rating

6.8 of 10 from 13 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

An elderly woman recalls her youthful love story from the 19th century. She was torn between a gifted singer and a wealthy suitor. The film uses a frame story to show past events.

romanticbittersweetnostalgicold-fashionedsentimentalmelancholicmusicaltender

What happens

Maytime is a 1937 American musical and romantic-drama film produced by MGM. It was directed by Robert Z. Leonard, and stars Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy. The screenplay was rewritten from the book for Sigmund Romberg's 1917 operetta Maytime by Rida Johnson Young, Romberg's librettist; however, only one musical number by Romberg was retained. Internationally, with its initial release it was the year's highest grossing film. The film's story greatly resembles that of Noël Coward's operetta Bitter Sweet, including the "frame story" surrounding the main plot. Three years later, MGM filmed Bitter Sweet (1940), a Technicolor version, but altered the plot so that audiences would not notice the similarities. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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