Rotten
The comedy being insufficient to sustain this much footage, with no especially exciting action, provides serious handicaps.
Variety Staff, Variety
Naughty Marietta
Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy together for the first time!
1935 · 1h 45m · G
Drama, Music
Directed by
Robert Z. Leonard
,
W.S. Van Dyke
Overview
A French princess in Colonial America gets involved with a mercenary.
Director and cast
- Robert Z. Leonard Director
- W.S. Van Dyke Director
- Jeanette MacDonald as Marietta
- Nelson Eddy as Captain Richard Warrington
- Frank Morgan as Gov. Gaspar d'Annard
- Elsa Lanchester as Madame d'Annard
- Douglass Dumbrille as Prince de Namours de la Bonfain, Marietta's Uncle (as Douglas Dumbrille)
- Joseph Cawthorn as Herr 'Schumie' Schuman (as Joseph Cawthorne)
- Cecilia Parker as Julie
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
43%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Pictorially handsome in the lavish Metro style, the work tells its story in spirited, romantic episodes which catch your fancy quite independently of the songs and the music.
Andre Sennwald, New York Times
Rotten
The first MacDonald-Eddy vehicle, enormously popular in its day so somebody must have been able to stand this simpering duo.
Tom Milne, Time Out
Rotten
The score includes the parodist's favorite, "Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life," and other numbers too annoying to mention.
Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
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