Maytime (1937)

Academy Awards, USA 1938

Nominated Oscar	Best Sound, Recording Douglas Shearer (M-G-M SSD)
	Best Music, Score Nat W. Finston (head of department) Score by Herbert Stothart.

MGM
Directed by Robert Z. Leonard
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
(Turner Classic Movies)

Opera prima donna Jeanette MacDonald falls in love with aspiring singer Nelson Eddy, much to the displeasure of her mentor and fiance John Barrymore. The two young lovers spend one glorious day alone at a French May Day festival, then part for seven years. She becomes a star on stage but her marriage to Barrymore is an unhappy one. Returning to America, she is cast in a new opera, costarring with who else but her old flame, which is immediately rekindled. There is a tragic ending more appropriate for an opera, and a wraparound narrative with a pat Hollywood happy ending for counterbalance... neither one really works.