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Sweethearts

1938, Movie, NR, 120 mins

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Some spice along with the sugar, and most welcome. MGM chose an old chestnut, the 1913 Victor Herbert operetta "Sweethearts," for their first three-color Technicolor movie. Audiences in 1938 were unlikely to accept the original's story about an orphan raised by a laundry operator only to find out that she was a princess by birth, however, so the studio took that plot and turned it into a show-within-the-movie, thereby retaining much of Herbert's score. MGM hired Dorothy Park... read more leave a comment
Year: 1938
Rated NR

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Cast
Jeanette MacDonald: Gwen Marlowe
Nelson Eddy: Ernest Lane
Frank Morgan: Felix Lehman
Ray Bolger: Hans the Dancer
Florence Rice: Kay Jordan
Mischa Auer: Leo Kronk

 

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