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Posts Tagged "operetta"
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Rose Marie *** (1954, Ann Blyth, Howard Keel, Fernando Lamas, Bert Lahr, Marjorie Main) – Classic Movie Review 11,865
Director Mervyn LeRoy’s 1954 MGM musical Rose-Marie is the third movie version of the great 1924 Oscar Hammerstein II-Otto A Harbach operetta, this time filmed in CinemaScope and Eastmancolor. It stars Ann Blyth, Howard Keel and Fernando Lamas. French-Canadian backwoods […]
Rose-Marie **** (1936, Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy, Reginald Owen, Allan Jones, James Stewart, Alan Mowbray) – Classic Movie Review 11,863
Director W S Van Dyke’s pleasurable 1936 MGM black and white musical Rose-Marie stars Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy, Reginald Owen, Allan Jones, James Stewart, and Alan Mowbray. Opera singer Marie de Flor (MacDonald) searches for […]
Bitter Sweet *** (1940, Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy, George Sanders, Felix Bressart, Ian Hunter) – Classic Movie Review 11,324
Noël Coward was bitter: ‘This vulgar orgy of tenth-rate endeavour.’ Director W S Van Dyke II’s 1940 musical film Bitter Sweet stars Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy, who are sweet in this welcome remake of […]
The Desert Song *** (1929, John Boles, Carlotta King, Louise Fazenda, Myrna Loy) – Classic Movie Review 10,641
John Boles cuts a dash as the Red Shadow (aka Pierre Birbeau) in director Roy Del Ruth’s rather beautiful if perhaps shakily scripted and filmed 1929 Warner Bros (as The Vitaphone Corporation) innovative first version […]
The Cool Mikado * (1963, Kevin Scott, Jill Mai Meredith, Stubby Kaye, Frankie Howerd, Dennis Price, Tommy Cooper) – Classic Movie Review 7768
The 1963 British musical The Cool Mikado is Gilbert and Sullivan according to Michael Winner, which includes space for comedy gods Frankie Howerd and Tommy Cooper. Kevin Scott plays Hank Mikado. His father, American judge […]
The Devil’s Brother [Fra Diavolo] **** (1933, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Dennis King) – Classic Movie Review 7365
Directors Hal Roach and Charles [Charley] Rogers’s 1933 comedy The Devil’s Brother [Fra Diavolo] is Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy’s first and perhaps best operetta send-up (in this case of Daniel F Auber’s 1830 comic […]
The Merry Widow **** (1925, Mae Murray, John Gilbert, Roy D’Arcy, Tully Marshall, Josephine Crowell, George Fawcett, Edward Connelly) – Classic Movie Review 5809
Co-writer/ director Erich von Stroheim 1925 silent MGM version of the famous Franz Lehar operetta Die Lustige Witwe is hugely successful and was a huge success. The wayward maverick director encourages Mae Murray’s classiest performance […]