Jeanette MacDonald Movies

This short promotes the premise that movies often create a demand for the fashions seen in them. It starts with a vignette in rural America. A mother...

An aging opera singer looks back on her long life, including her relationships with her vocal teacher and a student.

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,...

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

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

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...

Reporter Homer Smith accidently draws Marcia Warren into his mission to stop Nazis from bombing Allied Conwoys with robot-planes.

The story takes place in medieval France. Poet-rogue Francois Villon, sentenced to hang by King Louis XI for writing derogatory verses about him, is...

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...

A revolutionary leader romances a French aristocrat in Louisiana.

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

A romance between a struggling composer and an American singer.

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.

At a big party, Roger Fallon, now a woman-hater, right to the core - this all due to a failed marriage and disastrous love affairs - talks to Herbert...

A count who ignores an infatuated secretary thinks he has met his match when an angel from Heaven shows up.

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...

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

Sundered lovers meet again amid tragic irony at a mining camp in northern Norway.

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

A look at the screen triumphs and private lives of the screen's number-one singing team.