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Naughty Marietta (1935)

A princess decides that she doesn't want to be forced into an arranged marriage, so she swaps places with her lady in waiting and goes on a ship bound for New Orleans as a casquette girl.

Princess Marie (Jeanette MacDonald) ends up bound on a ship that is pirated and is then saved by mercenary soldier and captain, Richard Warrington (Nelson Eddy). Warrington finds her suspicious and intriguing and he assigns himself her personal guard. She finds, much to her horror, that he's the only person she can trust when her uncle comes to New Orleans to retrieve her and force her to marry Don Carlos de Braganza.

Eddy and MacDonald were immediately seen as a team after this first pairing. Fan clubs started right after the film came out and Jeanette would make seven more films following Marietta.

Eddy Performances

Tramp, Tramp, Tramp
Music by Victor Herbert. Original lyrics by Rida Johnson Young and Gus Kahn
Nelson Eddy and chorus

The Owl and the Bobcat
Music by Victor Herbert and lyrics by Gus Kahn
Nelson Eddy and chorus

'Neath the Southern Moon
Music by Victor Herbert, lyrics by Rida Johnson Young
Nelson Eddy

Italian Street Song
Music by Victor Herbert, lyrics by Rida Johnson Young
Nelson Eddy, Jeanette MacDonald, Zarula Elmassian and chorus

I'm Falling in Love with Someone
Music by Victor Herbert, lyrics by Rida Johnson Young
Nelson Eddy

Ah! Sweet Mystery of Life
Music by Victor Herbert, lyrics by Rida Johnson Young
Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald

Ah! Sweet Mystery of Life (Reprise)
Music by Victor Herbert, lyrics by Rida Johnson Young
Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald

Recordings

Tramp, Tramp Tramp
Recording Date: March 11, 1935
Label: Victor

Ah! Sweet Mystery of Life
Recording Date: March 11, 1935
Label:Victor

I'm Falling in Love With Someone
Recording Date: March 11, 1935
Label:Victor

'Neath the Southern Moon
Recording Date: March 11, 1935
Label:Victor

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Naughty Marietta
Visit Eleanor Knowles Dugan's Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy: A Tribute for much more information about this film.

Naughty Marietta on IMDb

Fast Facts

Naughty Marietta

Lines to Remember

Warrington: The nightmare's all over, ladies. The next man who lays a finger on you will be--your husbands.
Marietta: Oh, then you'll see us safely to New Orleans, Monseir?
Warrington: Without adding another wrinkle to your fair brow. Why, they're not many at that. Why in the devil couldn't you get a husband in France, little'un?
Marietta: Well, I don't see what that has to do--
Warrington: Bad disposition, epilepsy? Nothing short of a wooden leg should have kept you.

Warrington: Some lonely milkmaid?
Marietta: As a matter of fact I was...
Warrington: Look at those little hands! they wouldn't make a cow halfway comfortable.
--Submitted by Jess

Marietta: Do you spend much time in New Orleans?
Warrington: Not if I can help it. We're just hired down here to keep injuns off the back stoop.
Marietta: Oh, mercenery soldiers.
Warrington: Mm hmm. Those cream puff soldiers of New Orleans don't know a screech owl from a war hoop and they run away from both.
Marietta: Well then the colonies are really blessed to have your services you might say.
Warrington: Yeah, I said it.
Marietta: What happens to your families up north? Who protects them?
Warrington: My what?
Marietta: Well, your wife and children--
Warrington: Wife, Blue Eyes. You're paddling up a dry creek.
Marietta: Oh, then you're not married.
Warrington: And as long as I'm sane--oh, I see the squirrel in the tree. Now wait a minute, Blue Eyes, oh no--
Marietta: Squirrel in a tree? What do you mean?
Warrington: That we're all happily unmarried, so just tell the girls not to get up their hopes, will you?

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