Jeanette MacDonald Movies

This short documentary, presented and directed by MGM sound engineer Douglas Shearer, goes behind the scenes to look at how the sound portion of a...

This short shows how Hollywood gets ready for the world premiere of an "important" movie. The film celebrated here is Marie Antoinette (1938), which...

During World War II, all the studios put out "all-star" vehicles which featured virtually every star on the lot--often playing themselves--in musical...

An incognito opera singer falls for a policeman who has been assigned to track down her fugitive brother.

A revolutionary leader romances a French aristocrat in Louisiana.

Set in the rural south of the United States, a bereaved war widow learns to put aside her bitterness and grief as she grows to love a young orphan...

The company of a musical comedy gets shipwrecked on a tropical island inhabited by a "king" from Brooklyn and his coterie of wild native girls.

A two-hour in-depth exploration into the Hollywood musicals of the 1930s.

A romance between a struggling composer and an American singer.

The queen of mythical Sylvania marries a courtier, who finds his new life unsatisfying

Several behind the scenes aspects of the movie-making business, which results in the enjoyment the movie going public has in going to the theater,...

The team behind a successful Broadway production tries to stop the married stars from transitioning to Hollywood.

A famous singer discovers a newsboy with vocal talent, but he would rather play baseball than develop his singing skills. She'd like to persuade his...

Three young girls try to help their divorced mother find the right husband.

Disenchanted opera star Carlotta Manson falls for ruffian cat burglar Barney McGann and gives up her career to marry him. But Barney grows...

A married singer, pianist/composer team are struggling to hit it big in New York. Finally, they audition before a Broadway producer, but the producer...

Nina Maria Azara is the beautiful and alluring singing spy for Spain during the Napoleonic Wars. Her mission is to seduce French officers, in order...

A countess fleeing her husband mistakes a count for her hairdresser at a Monte Carlo casino.

In medieval France, poet-rogue Francois Villon, sentenced to hang by King Louis XI for writing derogatory verses about him, is offered a temporary...

John Carteret has long been depressed and lonely, because, at his wedding years ago, his bride, Moonyean, was murdered. He accepts into his house...