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Maytime is a 1937 American musical and romantic-drama film produced by MGM. It was directed by Robert Z. Leonard, and stars Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy. The screenplay was rewritten from the book for Sigmund Romberg's 1917 operetta Maytime by Rida Johnson Young, Romberg's librettist; however, only one musical number by Romberg was retained.
- $2,126,000
Maytime is a film about an aging opera singer who recalls her past love affairs and career. It features Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy as a singer and her voice teacher, and was nominated for two Oscars.
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- Drama, Musical, Mystery
- Robert Z. Leonard
- 1937-03-26
Maytime is a 1937 musical film adaptation of a play by Rida Johnson Young, with music by Sigmund Romberg. It stars Jeanette Macdonald as an opera star and John Barrymore as her manager, who tries to stop her romance with a penniless singer.
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One of the top-grossing films of 1937, Maytime is the poignant, glorious musical that has long been acknowledged as a supreme masterpiece of its genre. 339 IMDb 7.3 2 h 11 min 1937. X-Ray 13+. Arts, Entertainment, and Culture · Drama · Emotional · Passionate.
Maytime is a musical with music by Sigmund Romberg and lyrics and book by Rida Johnson Young, and with additional lyrics by Cyrus Wood. The story is based on the 1913 German operetta Wie einst im Mai (Like Once in May), composed by Walter Kollo, with words by Rudolf Bernauer and Rudolph Schanzer. The story, set in New York, is told in episodes ...