Victor Herbert's Naughty Marietta
By: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer presents ; a W.S. Van Dyke production ; screen play by John Lee Mahin, Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett ; produced by Hunt Stromberg ; directed by W.S. Van Dyke
Contributors: MacDonald, Jeanette, 1903-1965, actor; Eddy, Nelson, 1901-1967, actor; Morgan, Frank, 1890-1949, actor; Lanchester, Elsa, 1902-1986, actor; Dumbrille, Douglass, 1890-1974, actor; Cawthorn, Joseph, 1868-1949, actor; Parker, Cecilia, 1914-1993, actor; Kingsford, Walter, 1881-1958, actor; Meyer, Greta, 1883-1965, actor; Tamiroff, Akim, 1899-1972, actor; Huber, Harold, 1910-1959, actor; Brophy, Edward, 1895-1960, actor; Herbert, Victor, 1859-1924, composer (expression); Stothart, Herbert, 1885-1949, adapter; Daniels, William, 1900-1970, director of photography; Kahn, Gus, 1886-1941, lyricist; Adrian, 1903-1959, costume designer; Gibbons, Cedric, 1895-1960, art director; Sewell, Blanche, editor of moving image work; Herbert, Victor, 1859-1924; Young, Rida Johnson; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer; Turner Entertainment Co; Warner Bros. Entertainment
Series: WB Archive collection; Archive collection
Published: 2011
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording] /
Number of pages: 104
Subjects: Drama; Operas; Man-woman relationships; Princesses; False personation; French
Other titles: Naughty Marietta
Description: A French princess flees to New Orleans and masquerades as a lower-class woman to avoid marrying a nobleman she doesn't love. In bayou country she falls for a swaggering soldier, who wards off pirates and a king to keep her.
Notes: Book and lyrics by Rida Johnson Young.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1935.

Special features include: On the MGM recording stage with Nelson and Jeanette (January 1935); Lux Radio Theater broadcast, 6/12/1944; Trailer.

ML: Restricted to home use or face to face teaching.

Music, Victor Herbert ; musical adaptation, Herbert Stothart ; director of photography, William Daniels ; additional lyrics, Gus Kahn ; gowns, Adrian ; art director, Cedric Gibbons ; film editor, Blanche Sewell.

Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy, Frank Morgan, Elsa Lanchester, Douglas Dumbrille, Joseph Cawthorne, Cecilia Parker, Walter Kingsford, Greta Meyer, Akim Tamiroff, Harold Huber, Edward Brophy.

MPAA rating: G.

DVD-R; NTSC; all regions; full-screen (1.33:1 aspect ratio); Dolby digital 2.0 mono.

"This disc is expected to play back in DVD video "play only" devices, and may not play back in other DVD devices, including recorders and PC drives."--Container.

English audio.

Added to the Library of Congress' National Film Registry in 2003.

Academy Award winner for Best Sound, Recording ; nominated for Best Picture 1936.