Everything about Naughty Marietta Film totally explained
Naughty Marietta is a 1935 movie based on the
operetta of the same name by
Victor Herbert:
Jeanette MacDonald stars as a flirty, flighty Princess who trades places with her maid Marietta in order to avoid an arranged marriage. Instead, she sails for
New Orleans and is rescued from pirates by Captain Richard Warrington (
Nelson Eddy), with whom she falls in love.
Five of Victor Herbert's most famous songs come from the score of
Naughty Marietta, with words by lyricist Rida Johnson Young:
- Ah! Sweet Mystery of Life
- Italian Street Song
- 'Neath the Southern Moon
- I'm Falling in Love With Someone
- Tramp! Tramp! Tramp! (Along the Highway)
Additional lyrics for several of Herbert's songs were penned for the movie by
Gus Kahn.
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) The songs "Ah! Sweet Mystery of Life" and "I'm Falling in Love With Someone" were used in the Broadway adaptation of
Thoroughly Modern Millie. The film was written by
Frances Goodrich,
Albert Hackett,
John Lee Mahin and
Rida Johnson Young. It was nominated for the
Academy Award for Best Picture.
Douglas Shearer won the
Academy Award for Sound for his work on the picture. In
2003 the United States
Library of Congress deemed the film "culturally significant" and selected it for preservation in the
National Film Registry.
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