Bitter Sweet

US (1940): Romance/Musical

Bitter Sweet, based on the 1929 operetta by Noël Coward, was the sixth feature film that America's singing sweethearts Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald made together. In the film, MacDonald plays an English society girl in the late 19th century who escapes an arranged marriage and elopes to Vienna with her penniless music teacher, played by Eddy. The blissful newlyweds need only love to live on as composer Eddy shops his operetta around town in hopes of having it produced. Fate intervenes in the form of Baron Von Tranisch (George Sanders), who hires MacDonald to sing in his cafe, but his motives are less than honorary. When he tries to force himself on her, Eddy challenges him to a duel. A must for Jeanette and Nelson fans, but tolerable also for the score and the lush Technicolor. From MGM; directed by W.S. Van Dyke. (Andrea Passafiume, TCM.com)

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