Sweethearts (1938) ( Sweet hearts )

Sweethearts (1938) (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Sweet hearts
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Oscar Academy Awards
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital Stereo )
Spanish ( Dolby Digital Stereo )
Spanish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Spain ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
114 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1938 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
W.S. Van Dyke

Written By:
Fred De Gresac
Harry B. Smith

Actors:
Jeanette MacDonald ..... Gwen Marlowe
Nelson Eddy ..... Ernest Lane
Frank Morgan ..... Felix Lehman
Ray Bolger ..... Hans
Florence Rice ..... Kay Jordan
Mischa Auer ..... Leo Kronk
Herman Bing ..... Oscar Engel
George Barbier ..... Benjamin Silver
Reginald Gardiner ..... Norman Trumpett
Fay Holden ..... Hannah
Allyn Joslyn ..... Dink
Lucile Watson ..... Mrs. Marlowe
Gene Lockhart ..... Augustus
Kathleen Lockhart ..... Aunt Amelia
Berton Churchill ..... Sheridan

Synopsis:

Contrary to popular belief, the Nelson Eddy-Jeanette MacDonald Technicolor confection Sweethearts is not based on the 1913 Victor Herbert operetta of the same name (though most of Herbert's songs remain intact), but a Dorothy Parker-Alan Campbell brainstorm about a popular Broadway singing duo, starring in a long-running production of Sweethearts. The early portions of the film take place during a purported presentation of the Herbert piece, with Eddy and MacDonald singing their hearts out and Ray Bolger providing comic relief. We then segue into a long sequence wherein producer Frank Morgan, celebrating Sweethearts's six-year run, insists that Eddy and MacDonald attend a lavish party, where the weary performers are called upon to continue singing throughout the evening. Hoping for a few moments alone after escaping the party, Eddy and MacDonald are besieged at their apartment by friends, co-workers, hangers-on and sponging relatives. Seeking peace and quiet, the couple agrees to leave Sweethearts for the comparative calm of Hollywood. But their entourage, fearing that they'll lose their meal ticket if Eddy and MacDonald leave New York, arrange to inaugurate two profitable road companies of Sweethearts by contriving to split up the loving couple. Cleverly sidestepping the sugary sweet sentimentality that one might expect from an MGM musical of the era, the delightful Sweethearts is hampered only by its overlength.

Musical comedy of a pair of married actors in the same successful play who are tired of it. They try to get out, but after complications threatening the marriage, they are reconciled.

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