Jeanette MacDonald
1) The firefly
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Jeanette MacDonald portrays Nina Maria, who sings, dances and spies for Spain during the Napoleonic Wars.
2) Cairo
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When in Rome, do as the Romans do. But when in World War II-era Cairo, do as the spies do. Into that teeming viper's nest stumbles affable American Homer Smith, a reporter who aims to get the story, get it right and, above all, get it first. Trouble is, some folks are out to get Homer first.
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With a lilting, Tira Lira La, a bevy of Budapest beauties show up for the birthday celebration of the town's most eligible bachelor, Count Palaffi. Weary of their scheming attentions, the wealthy playboy slips away to his room and dreams of marrying an angel. The eighth and final pairing of Eddy and MacDonald.
4) Maytime
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One of the top-grossing films of 1937, Maytime is the poignant, glorious musical that has long been acknowledged as a supreme masterpiece of its genre. See and hear Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy at the height of their vocal powers and popularity.
6) Bitter sweet
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On the eve of her wedding to a priggish Londoner, a Victorian girl and her dashing music teacher elope to Vienna, where he hopes to sell his music.
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"John Carteret has long been depressed and lonely, because, at his wedding years ago, his bride, Moonyean, was murdered. He accepts into his house Kathleen, the 5 year old orphaned niece of Moonyean, and she quickly grows up to look just like her aunt. Kathleen meets and falls in love with a mysterious stranger from America, Kenneth Wayne. When John hears of this he is furious, and we learn that it was Kenneth's father, Jeremy, who had killed Moonyean...
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Golden hills, voices and melodies! Cowpokes from all around agree. Ain't nobody like Mary, the tomboy they call "the girl." She's as much at ease serving a slug of whiskey as she is trilling a tune. And when it comes to playing a hand of cards to save the neck of the bandit she loves, Mary does as any cowgirl would. She cheats. Saddling up for this song-filled sagebrusher are Jeanette MacDonald as Mary and Nelson Eddy as Ramerez, her gold-hearted...
10) Rose Marie
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Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy in the most famous film of their careers! Resounding with such songs as "Rose-Marie, I Love You," "Song of the Mounties" and the beloved "Indian Love Call," Rose-Marie immortalized Hollywood's greatest singing team. This 1936 screen version of the Rudolf Friml-Herbert Stothart Broadway hit is set in the breathtaking wilderness of the Canadian Rockies. Marie de Flor (MacDonald), a glamorous Canadian prima donna, is...
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The musical that launched a legendary team. With their splendid voices, matinee-idol looks, vivacity (she) and stoutheartedness (he), Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy were America's Singing Sweethearts, "a true team, mixing the chemistry that permits one to accept disguised princesses, dream melodies and beautiful doom" (Ethan Mordden, The Hollywood Musical). Naughty Marietta is their first film together, a blithe tale of a French princess who arrives...
12) San Francisco
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A Barbary Coast saloon keeper and a Nob Hill impresario are rivals for the affections of a beautiful singer, both personally and professionally in 1906 San Francisco.