Bitter Sweet

Filmed once before with Anna Neagle in 1933 and based on Noel Coward's 1929 operetta, BITTER SWEET should have been a much bigger hit than it was, but the screenplay by Lesser Samuels did not enhance the original plot and score by Coward. It made money, though, and survives today as an interesting example of MacDonald and Eddy in their prime. Jeanette is a Victorian belle who scandalizes her family on the eve of her marriage to Edward Ashley by running off with Nelson, her singing teacher. They marry and go to live in Vienna. Poverty soon follows, and they become street singers with Bois and Bressart. Nelson has written an operetta but can interest no producers, so...