Naughty Marietta

Media:	VHS Tape
Directed by:	W.S. Van Dyke, Robert Z. Leonard
Starring:
Release date:	18 November, 1992
List price:	~~$14.95~~
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Naughty Marietta

Average rating:

A true "happy ending" movie with great music.

It may be way up there on the cheesy and unrealistic scale, but Naughty Marietta is an awesome movie to watch when you're feeling low. The music is fabulous (Jeanette Macdonald and Nelson Eddy have the best voices I have ever heard) and the movie leaves you with a warm fuzzy feeling. It's also a movie for all ages. My grandmother loves it, and I (a teenager) do too.

Naughty Marietta -

A charming movie

Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy together for the first time! "Naughty Marietta" is a charming movie for lack of pretentions. Woody Van DykeÂ's straight but careful style makes everything easy and natural, never stilted. The talented stars have their share, and a very important one, in the success of the film. This talent make us to forgive the excesses like the white wings, because beyond them there is something genuine that is never out of fashion. Eddy would never be so dashing, so attractive again, and JeanetteÂ's Marietta is as lovely as a fairy tale princess, full of joy of living, true and powerful.

- Naughty Marietta

"You don't cook a radish, you eat it alive!"

How I love this movie! It's just great. The first in a long line of Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy collaberations, it's easily one of the best, and my personal fave. The music is beautiful, the sets and costumes are lush, and the plot is silly fun.

MacDonald is a runaway French princess who is traveling incognito with a shipload of brides bound for N'Orleans. Eddy is the Mercenary Captain who saves her from a band of cutthroat pirates. Songs include "Neath the Southern Moon", "I'm Falling in Love with Someone", "O Sweet Mystery of Life", and "Zing Zing Zing" among others.

There are several great scenes; Eddy marching though the bayous singing "Tramp Tramp Tramp", MacDonald passing off a random drunk as her "uncle" and of course a great sequence where Jeanette unveils her heretofore hidden talent for singing to Eddy.

The sweet, lightheatered spirit of this movie makes it a great introduction to the Eddy/MacDonald cannon for newcomers. If you like this film be sure to also check out "Rosemarie" (generally considered to be their best film) and "New Moon" (containing my favorite movie line of all time: "Do I LOOK like the kind of girl who would marry a moonstruck beachcomber under a coconut tree!?"). "Naughty Marietta" is a happy little movie that is essential for old-movie buffs or anyone who likes a good romance. Highly recommended!