Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy
“SWEETHEARTS,” FIFTH COSTARRING VEHICLE (Regent: Screening 10.15 p.m. Thursday.) A new Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy and a new warmth, colour and comedy spirit in musicals makes itself manifest in “Sweethearts,” fifth co-starring musical of the famous singing team. Teclinicolour has given both singers a more vivid personality, while the up to-the-minute story devised for them by Dorothy Parker and Alan Campbell from the Victor Herbert operetta provides the stars with comedy characterisations which should win them legions of new followers. In “Sweethearts” Miss MacDonald nnd Eddy portray two Broadway musical comedy stars Avho are husband and wife in private life. their quarrels, temperamental outbursts and jealousies, together with their joint attempt to outwit a producer who wants to prevent them from accepting an offer from Hollywood, make for a comedy which is rich in laughter and at the same time replete with beautiful and original song and dance presentations. Miss MacDonald and Eddy prove themselves as skillful in modern roles as in their past costume successes and offer a musical feast in their singing of the lovely Victor Herbert songs, among them, “Sweethearts,” “Every Lover Must Meet liis Fate,” “Pretty As a Picture,”* and “On Parade.” The supporting cast is one of the best, including in its imposing lineup such well-known performers as Frank Morgan in the role of the scheming but laughable producer, Ray Bolger who dances with Miss MacDonald and also in solo numbers, Florence Rice as Miss MacDonald’s secretary, Mischa Auer, Herman Bing and Reginald Gardiner. The supporting programme includes “Audioscopiks” and “A City of Little Men” odditv.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 64, Issue 80, 5 April 1939, Page 11
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