Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "operetta"

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The Merry Widow ***** (1934, Jeanette MacDonald, Maurice Chevalier, Edward Everett Horton, Una Merkel) – Classic Movie Review 5776

Director Ernst Lubitsch’s 1934 MGM version of Franz Lehar’s famous operetta remakes a famous 1925 silent original The Merry Widow directed by Erich von Stroheim. It is an extravagant and effervescent delight, with the charming team […]

Jul, 20

The Desert Song *** (1943, Dennis Morgan, Irene Manning, Bruce Cabot, Lynne Overman) – Classic Movie Review 5738

Director Robert Florey’s 1943 musical movie The Desert Song is an antique show, but the fine, on-form cast of Dennis Morgan, Irene Manning, Bruce Cabot, Lynne Overman, Gene Lockhart, Victor Francen, Faye Emerson and Marcel […]

Jul, 09

Oh… Rosalinda!! *** (1955, Michael Redgrave, Anthony Quayle, Anton Walbrook, Dennis Price, Mel Ferrer, Ludmilla Tchérina) – Classic Movie Review 5,505

The 1955 British Technicolor film Oh… Rosalinda!! is an ambitious and imaginative if slightly fumbled and clumsy box-office flop musical from writer-producer-directors Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. Their game plan is to update Johann Strauss’s operetta […]

May, 26

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