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La fugue de Mariette

Original title: Naughty Marietta
  • 1935
  • Approved
  • 1h 45m
IMDb RATING
6.5/10
1.7K
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Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald in La fugue de Mariette (1935)
DramaMusicalRomance

In order to avoid a prearranged marriage, a rebellious French princess sheds her identity and escapes to colonial New Orleans, where she finds an unlikely true love.In order to avoid a prearranged marriage, a rebellious French princess sheds her identity and escapes to colonial New Orleans, where she finds an unlikely true love.In order to avoid a prearranged marriage, a rebellious French princess sheds her identity and escapes to colonial New Orleans, where she finds an unlikely true love.

  • Directors
    • Robert Z. Leonard
    • W.S. Van Dyke
  • Writers
    • Rida Johnson Young
    • John Lee Mahin
    • Frances Goodrich
  • Stars
    • Jeanette MacDonald
    • Nelson Eddy
    • Frank Morgan
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • IMDb RATING
    6.5/10
    1.7K
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    • Directors
      • Robert Z. Leonard
      • W.S. Van Dyke
    • Writers
      • Rida Johnson Young
      • John Lee Mahin
      • Frances Goodrich
    • Stars
      • Jeanette MacDonald
      • Nelson Eddy
      • Frank Morgan
    • 35User reviews
    • 11Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Won 1 Oscar
      • 5 wins & 1 nomination total

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    Jeanette MacDonald
    Jeanette MacDonald
    • Marietta
    Nelson Eddy
    Nelson Eddy
    • Warrington
    Frank Morgan
    Frank Morgan
    • Governor d'Annard
    Elsa Lanchester
    Elsa Lanchester
    • Madame d'Annard
    Douglass Dumbrille
    Douglass Dumbrille
    • Uncle
    • (as Douglas Dumbrille)
    Joseph Cawthorn
    Joseph Cawthorn
    • Herr Schuman
    • (as Joseph Cawthorne)
    Cecilia Parker
    Cecilia Parker
    • Julie
    Walter Kingsford
    Walter Kingsford
    • Don Carlos
    Greta Meyer
    Greta Meyer
    • Frau Schuman
    Akim Tamiroff
    Akim Tamiroff
    • Rudolpho
    Harold Huber
    Harold Huber
    • Abe
    Edward Brophy
    Edward Brophy
    • Zeke
    Jane Barnes
    Jane Barnes
    • Casquette Girl
    • (uncredited)
    Arthur Belasco
    • Mercenary Scout
    • (uncredited)
    Margaret Bloodgood
    Margaret Bloodgood
    • Heavy Casquette Girl
    • (uncredited)
    Alexander Bokefi
    • Singer 'Ship Ahoy'
    • (uncredited)
    Ed Brady
    Ed Brady
    • Mercenary Scout
    • (uncredited)
    Ralph Brooks
    Ralph Brooks
    • Suitor
    • (uncredited)
    • Directors
      • Robert Z. Leonard
      • W.S. Van Dyke
    • Writers
      • Rida Johnson Young
      • John Lee Mahin
      • Frances Goodrich
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    7blanche-2

    Tramp, tramp, tramp

    Jeannette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy had their first teaming in the musical "Naughty Marietta" in 1935. They went on to make "The New Moon," "I Married an Angel," my favorite, "Maytime," and many others. Both performers were operatically trained, Eddy possessing a magnificent high baritone, and MacDonald a coloratura soprano. If her high notes don't have frontal placement and seem to back off, it's still a pretty voice, and of the two, she was the actor as well as being a great beauty.

    Though the film uses the Victor Herbert score, it differs in plot from the actual musical. Here, a princess ordered to marry one Don Carlo replaces her maid, Marietta, on a ship that carries women to New Orleans to look for a husband. Right before they arrive, pirates attack the ship and the women are rescued by mercenaries, headed by Richard Worthington (Eddy). With her beauty and obvious education, Marietta sticks out and begins a love-hate relationship with the vain Worthington. Soon, however, a messenger arrives - the King is looking for his escaped princess.

    The couple sing "Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life," while Eddy leads his men in "Tramp, tramp, tramp," and MacDonald entertains with the "Italian Street Song," and "Chansonette" among other solos that each has.

    This isn't the greatest MacDonald-Eddy musical, but it was a huge hit and started them off on their partnership. Were they in love in real life? Supposedly they were and never got together because Eddy wouldn't have wanted her to work. But take a look at Gene Raymond. He kind of looks like Nelson Eddy.
    10bobolink01

    Why Not on DVD??

    I wish that "Naughty Marietta" and "Sweethearts" and "I Married an Angel" and " and "Maytime" and would be gathered in a 4 disc Tribute set of DVD's. MacDonald and Eddy were well aware that the music in their films was mostly tripe and that the plot lines were thin at best.They were keenly aware of their film's theatricality being in a style that was already passé. But if you watch their faces when they act, ( and it is very good acting!) and see the mutual admiration in their eyes, and understand that it is all performed with tongue in cheek, the films become a lasting delight. My favorites are "Marietta," "Sweethearts" and "Maytime."

    "Marietta" is the height of charm. MacDonald is perfection with her bird like trills and rolling "r"s, and shows a very wide display of emotions, including everything from dramatic hand wringing and tears to delightful comedic acting and humor. Eddy matches these moods with considerable skill. He had to be somewhat less flamboyant than MacDonald in order to keep t the movie plausible. The real villain is the plot, but even that could not take away the delight this picture gives to me. ( Frank Morgan is great in it!)

    " Sweethearts" is my very favorite of their films. The antiquated plot of the musical stage play was tossed, and a whole new modern story was written for it by Dorothy Parker. Only the songs from the operetta were kept, and were interwoven into the movie within "Great Ziegfeld " like elaborate settings. It was also the first full length 3 strip Technicolor movie made at MGM. Both stars looked wonderful in color, and the absolutely rip roaringly funny story line only pauses for the musical numbers . The songs were acted and sung with such obvious self depreciating humor, that I cannot stop smiling , even now as I am writing this.

    "Maytime" is, of course a tragedy, with lovely haunting songs and great scenic beauty. The made for the screen "Opera within the operetta" is the two star's acting zenith. Their delight and passion and friendship for each other in real life shines through the scene, giving it an extraordinary sense of truth. SO, Why not a glorious Boxed set from SONY/ TURNER/ MGM? Please??????
    Bucs1960

    Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life

    Forgive me for loving this movie! It is dated and corny and the acting of Nelson Eddy is sadly lacking BUT when he and Jeanette McDonald break into song, nothing else matters. With the most glorious voices in the movies, these two made it all worthwhile. Both were gorgeous to look at but McDonald was obviously the better actor while Eddy had the classically trained voice. Together they took your breath away. The haunting "Sweet Mystery of Life" will bring tears to your eyes. This is by far the best of their series of movies although "Maytime" has some equally beautiful music and is a weeper to boot! Take the time to watch this film, you will not be disappointed. It's glorious!!!
    8AmyLouise

    Charm, passion, and lots of singing!

    Naughty Marietta has earned it place in film history for being the first film to pair the singing duo of Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald, but it's also a fine example of its particular genre.

    A typical variant on the boy-meets-girl theme, this film has a French princess running away from the court of Versailles to the newly- colonized Louisiana, where she meets and falls in love with a mercenary soldier who sings as well he fights. There is an excellent supporting cast including Frank Morgan and Elsa Lanchester, but it is above all a vehicle for the singing talent of Eddy and MacDonald. The script is amusing and at times quite sophisticated and the pair handle it well (MacDonald is a bit ahead of Eddy here, but he makes up for that with his glorious baritone voice). The final duet, Ah Sweet Mystery of Life is one of the great vocal duets in cinema musical history, and only slightly less orgasmic than the "Czaritza" duet in Maytime.

    Obviously a vehicle for fans of the Singing Sweethearts, but the film's production values are good, and it should be interesting viewing for any student of cinema's Golden Age.
    6Doylenf

    Recommended, but only for fans of Nelson and Jeanette...

    If old-fashioned operettas with lots of full-bodied singing and coy charm aren't your idea of entertainment, then steer clear of NAUGHTY MARIETTA--which, frankly, was somewhat of a museum piece even when first released in '35, belonging, as it did, to a style of musical theater that had long passed.

    But back then, NELSON EDDY and JEANETTE MacDONALD were a hot singing duo, and MGM would soon be casting them in film after film, based usually on hoary old operetta-type stories. Unless today's musical fans have a taste for this kind of singing, they're likely to find the film totally unbearable.

    I can still succumb to the charm of this kind of story and to these singers, for Nelson's baritone is one of the best you're ever likely to hear on screen--only Howard Keel and Gordon MacRae come close to approximating it. As for the story, it has to be taken with a grain of salt--a simple bit of nonsense about a princess escaping from France and ending up in Louisiana, where she gradually falls in love with a man who helped rescue her from French pirates.

    It's a slender tale on which Victor Herbert strung some of his golden melodies, sung to the max by MacDonald and Eddy. As a singer myself (I was in The Friendly Sons of St. Patrick Glee Club, a club started by Victor Herbert himself), we sometimes did the Herbert melodies as part of our repertoire.

    FRANK MORGAN and ELSA LANCHESTER as the governor and his wife add the required amount of broad humor and the sets and costumes have that lavish MGM look.

    Pleasant, if not the most memorable teaming of MacDonald and Eddy.

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    • Trivia
      Much to Frank Morgan's annoyance, he was required to shave his mustache, which he hadn't done for 17 years.
    • Goofs
      The 17th Century French nuns have plucked eyebrows and wear make-up and lipstick.
    • Quotes

      Warrington: Now let's talk this over as one mudlark to another...

      Marietta: I do not wish to be included in that.

      Warrington: ...but that was no street singers' warbling, Blue Eyes. The quality of those tones was something...

      Marietta: I used to appear at the Opera Comique.

      Warrington: I see, until the manager wished for you to appear as Lady Godiva and you refused.

      Marietta: Yes, something like that, yes.

    • Connections
      Featured in Some of the Best (1944)
    • Soundtracks
      Chansonette
      (1910) (uncredited)

      Music by Victor Herbert

      Lyrics by Rida Johnson Young

      Additional lyrics by Gus Kahn (1935)

      Sung by Jeanette MacDonald and chorus

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    • Release date
      • October 4, 1935 (France)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Naughty Marietta
    • Filming locations
      • Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios - 10202 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, California, USA(Studio)
    • Production company
      • Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
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    • Runtime
      • 1h 45m(105 min)
    • Color
      • Black and White
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.37 : 1

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