Rose- Marie (1. 93. IMDb. Jeanette Mac. Donald is . The movie borrows its title from the Rudolf Friml operetta, but it does not use the plot or many of the songs. Mac. Donald plays a famous opera singer named Marie de Flor whose brother (Stewart), going by the last name of Flower, has escaped prison and killed a Mountie. She leaves at once for Quebec and winds up meeting - who else - Nelson Eddy, a Mountie who recognizes her immediately and believes at first that he is helping her get to a rendezvous with a man. Meanwhile, he's falling for her himself. Nelson and Jeannette were one of the great screen teams, and even now, they have fans all over the world. Jeanette was beautiful, a good singer and a fine actress, and Nelson, while not being much of an actor, was an attractive man with a magnificent voice. Their big hit, in fact, their signature song, . Like all female singers of that era, she has a back placement for her high notes, though the middle part of her range is quite beautiful. Her obsession with Tosca - one of the opera scenes shown, and a role she also performed on stage in real life is a curious one. She had no business singing it, and neither did thetenor, Allan Jones, who was a lyric tenor. It's for a dramatic soprano and a spinto tenor. Eddy, on the other hand, had operatic roots, and his baritone has survived very well. They sounded wonderful together, and there was something about them that just worked, even if he was somewhat wooden. She was spitfire enough for both of them, and it made a nice contrast. My favorite part of the film is when, after her guide steals her money, Marie goes looking for the job as a singer in a honky tonk caf. He's boyish, good- looking and very effective. Today I suppose these films seem very campy, and they've surely been parodied over and over again. However, the music is enjoyable, Nelson and Jeanette are treasures, and one can't help but marvel, amidst the insanity of today, what a much simpler time it was. People were able to be lifted out of themselves for a little while with fantasy and beauty. These movies must have been doing something right. Seventy- plus years later, we're still enjoying them. Makeup and skincare formulated with pure ingredients.Rose-Marie is an operetta-style musical with music by Rudolf Friml and Herbert Stothart, and book and lyrics by Otto Harbach and Oscar Hammerstein II. Since decorating her first cake in 2007, Rose now has a spectacular list of international awards under her belt including Cake International, Overall Best in Show. Ah Rose Marie B&B: two quaint, cozy, 1930's historic Fairbanks homes. We are within easy walking distance to the Visitor Center and the old downtown with its many. Rose Marie is a 1954 musical adaptation of the 1924 operetta of the same name, the third by MGM, following a 1928 silent movie and the best-known of the three, the.
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