Sweethearts

US (1938): Musical/Comedy

This terrific musical makes wonderful use of Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald's familiar, devoted screen personas -- and a script from Dorothy Parker and Allen Campbell that's more than a few notches above the singing duo's usual operettas. The couple have been starring in a Broadway production of Sweethearts, a Victor Herbert musical, for their entire married lives. They want a break, and consider Hollywood. But the theater crowd and sponging relatives that depend on them for a livelihood won't allow it, and pull a mean trick to keep them together in New York. W.S. Van Dyke directs a cast that also includes Mischa Auer, Frank Morgan and Ray Bolger.

Sweethearts was MGM's first three-strip Technicolor feature film release. It was originally intended to be in black and white, but the studio altered its plans when its first color production, Northwest Passage, was delayed.

 Use this link to view the original theatrical trailer for Sweethearts on TCM.com.

2 nominations, 1 Special Award