Jeanette MacDonald Articles

Ernst Lubitsch's The Merry Widow, Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald (top); George Stevens' A Place in the Sun, Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor (bottom) If the more rabid elements within the Republican party don't succeed in their attempts to shut down the US government, the Library of Congress Packard Campus for Audio Visual Conservation, located in Culpeper, VA, will have a number of goodies to offer in [...]

THE MERRY WIDOW (1934) Direction: Ernst Lubitsch Cast: Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald, Edward Everett Horton, Una Merkel, George Barbier, Minna Gombell, Sterling Holloway Screenplay: Ernest Vajda and Samson Raphaelson; from Franz Lehár's operetta Oscar Movies Highly Recommended Jeanette MacDonald, Maurice Chevalier, The Merry Widow The Merry Widow is neither one of Ernst Lubitsch's most discussed nor best-liked films. Film critics and historians generally tend to [...]

Ella Raines, Franchot Tone in Robert Siodmak's Phantom Lady (top); Jeanette MacDonald, Maurice Chevalier in Rouben Mamoulian's Love Me Tonight (middle); Gary Cooper, Audrey Hepburn in Billy Wilder's Love in the Afternoon (bottom) Pre-1948 Paramount talkies are owned by Universal (or whichever conglomerate owns Universal; I've lost track of them by now — Comcast? NBC? General Electric?). For the most part, Universal couldn't care less [...]

Deborah Kerr, Gail Russell, Jacques Tati Movies: Packard May '10 Series schedule and synopses from the Packard Campus release: Saturday, May 1, 7:30 p.m. "From Here to Eternity" (Columbia, 1953) In this romantic war drama, enlisted men in Hawaii fight for love and honor on the eve of World War II. Named to the National Film Registry in 2002, the film was directed by Fred [...]