Jeanette MacDonald Movies

Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American entertainment industry during the Great Depression.

A Parisian tailor goes to a château to collect a bill, only to fall for an aloof young princess living there.

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

A prince from a small kingdom courts a wealthy widow to keep her money in the country.

The queen of mythical Sylvania marries a courtier, who finds his new life unsatisfying.

Various MGM stars from yesterday present their favorite musical moments from the studio's 50 year history.

Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire present more golden moments from the MGM film library, this time including comedy and drama as well as classic musical...

A beautiful singer and a battling priest try to reform a Barbary Coast saloon owner in the days before the great earthquake and subsequent fires in...

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,...

During World War II, all the studios put out "all-star" vehicles which featured virtually every star on the lot--often playing themselves--in musical...

Some of MGM'S musical stars review the studios history of musicals. From The Hollywood Revue of 1929 to Brigadoon, from the first musical talkies to...

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

In this tribute to her frequent co-star and longtime love, Katharine Hepburn hosts a behind-the-scenes look at Spencer Tracy's personal and...

In order to avoid a prearranged marriage, a rebellious French princess sheds her identity and escapes to colonial New Orleans, where she finds an...

Documentary about James Stewart's long career as an actor and positive personal life.

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 married singer, pianist/composer team are struggling to hit it big in New York. Finally, they audition before a Broadway producer, but the producer...

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

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...

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