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The Merry Widow (1934)
Cast/Credits/Review (From the Movie Database at TVGuide.com)
View the Trailer (via Turner Classic Movies)
Plot Summary:
"One of the great screen musicals of all time."
-- Clive Herschorn, The Hollywood Musical
Jeanette MacDonald is Sonia, a bubbly widow who owns 52% of every cow and cow town in the
tiny European country of Marshovia. When she relocates to glittery Paris, suave ladies'
man Captain Danilo (Maurice Chevalier) sets out in how pursuit. His mission: avert his
homeland's financial ruin by bringing Sonia back on the wings of love. But hang on tight,
Danilo. Love always flies a delirious course when helmed by legendary director Ernst
Lubitsch, known for his sophisticated wit and style affectionately dubbed "the
Lubitsch touch." A frothy, high-spirited gem based on Franz Lehar's operetta, The
Merry Widow set the standard for musicals to come. And it confirmed what MGM's top
brass already knew: Jeanette MacDonald was a major new star. Filled with rapturous music,
sparkling dialogue -- courtesy of screenwriters Ernest Vajda and Samson Raphaelson -- and
the swirling "Merry Widow Waltz." You'll have to look far and wide for a better
comedy operetta than this.
Plot Summary from the jacket of the MGM/UA Home Video release of
The Merry Widow.
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