Naughty Marietta

TCM's Dave Karger introduces Naughty Marietta, 1935.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces Naughty Marietta, 1935.

We’ve just met Jeanette MacDonald as flighty French princess Marie, visiting with her musical mentor Herr Schuman (Joseph Cawthorne), then joining his rowdy students for a song from the original operetta by Victor Herbert and Rida Johnson Young, in her first MGM feature with Nelson Eddy, Naughty Marietta, 1935.

Nearing the climax, in colonial New Orleans, after her first stanza introducing the song, reaffirming her love for brave commoner Richard (Nelson Eddy), he joins politically obligated princess Marie (Jeanette MacDonald) in the most famous song from their first MGM feature, by Victor Herbert and Rida Johnson Young, in Naughty Marietta, 1935.

Jeanette MacDonald is princess Marie, posing as one of a group of French would-be mail-order brides, captured by pirates en route to New Orleans, trouble brewing when an ill-defined group of “Yankee Scouts” led by Nelson Eddy appears, his first song in their first feature together, by Victor Herbert and Rida Johnson Young, in Naughty Marietta, 1935.

A French princess in colonial America gets involved with an Indian scout in the musical, Naughty Marietta (1935).