In the screenplay Sweethearts, Victor Herbert's play was was used. What type of performance was this?
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Sweethearts (1938 film) Sweethearts is a 1938 Technicolor musical romance directed by W.S. Van Dyke, starring Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy. The screenplay, by Dorothy Parker and Alan Campbell, uses the “play within a play” device: a contemporary Broadway production of the 1913 Victor Herbert operetta is the setting for another pair of sweethearts, the stars of the show. This was the first color film for Nelson or Jeanette (as well as MGM's first three strip Technicolor feature).
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Victor Herbert Victor August Herbert (February 1, 1859 – May 26, 1924) was an Irish-born, German-raised American composer, cellist and conductor. Although Herbert enjoyed important careers as a cello soloist and conductor, he is best known for composing many successful operettas that premiered on Broadway from the 1890s to World War I. He was also prominent among the tin pan alley composers and was later a founder of the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP). A prolific composer, Herbert produced two operas, a cantata, 43 operettas, incidental music to 10 plays, 31 compositions for orchestra, nine band compositions, nine cello compositions, five violin compositions with piano or orchestra, 22 piano compositions and numerous songs, choral compositions and orchestrations of works by other composers, among other music.
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The Man in Possession The Man in Possession is a 1931 American pre-Code romantic comedy film starring Robert Montgomery, Charlotte Greenwood and Irene Purcell, and based on the play of the same name by H. M. Harwood. The black sheep of a family finds himself falling in love with the wealthy woman his brother is seeking to marry.
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Trilby (play) Trilby is a stage play based on the 1895 novel "Trilby" by George du Maurier. The novel was adapted into a long-running play starring Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree as Svengali and Dorothea Baird in the title role at the Haymarket Theatre in London in October 1895. The role of Svengali was originally created by American actor Wilton Lackaye in an earlier version of the play performed at the Boston Museum in March 1895.
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Strictly Dishonorable (play) Strictly Dishonorable is a romantic comedy play written by Preston Sturges and first produced on Broadway in 1929. It was adapted for the screen twice, first in 1931, then again in 1951. The play was Sturges' second Broadway production, and the first of his plays to be made into a film. The Attic Theater Company revived the show at The Flea Theater in the summer of 2014.
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Westward Passage Westward Passage is a 1932 American Pre-Code drama film directed by Robert Milton and starring Ann Harding, Laurence Olivier, ZaSu Pitts and Irving Pichel. A woman falls in love and marries, but soon discovers how unpleasant her new husband is. The film marked Olivier's second major role in the United States. It was not a commercial or critical success, and Olivier did not make another film in America until 1939 when he starred in "Wuthering Heights". The film recorded a loss of $250,000.
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Herbert Rawlinson Herbert Banemann Rawlinson (November 15, 1885 – July 12, 1953) was an English-born stage, film, radio, and television actor. A leading man during Hollywood's silent film era, Rawlinson transitioned to character roles after the advent of sound films.
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Laura Henderson Laura Henderson (6 December 1863 – 29 November 1944) born Laura Forster, rose to prominence in the 1930s when, as a wealthy and eccentric widow, she founded the Windmill Theatre in London's Great Windmill Street, in partnership with Vivian van Damm. With Henderson as owner and van Damm as manager, they turned the theatre into a British institution, famed for its pioneering tableaux vivants of motionless female nudity, and for having "never closed" during the Blitz.
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Just a Wife Just a Wife is a 1910 play by Eugene Walter that was adapted to silent film in 1920.
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Le roi s'amuse Le roi s'amuse (] ; literally, "The King Amuses Himself" or "The King Has Fun") is a French play in five acts written by Victor Hugo. First performed on 22 November 1832 but banned by the government after one evening, the play was used for Verdi's 1851 opera "Rigoletto".
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Carnival (1931 film) Carnival is a 1931 British drama film directed by Herbert Wilcox and produced by his British & Dominions Film Corporation, starring Matheson Lang, Joseph Schildkraut, Kay Hammond and Chili Bouchier. During a performance of "Othello" a jealous actor attempts to strangle his wife who he believes has committed adultery. It was a remake of the 1921 film "Carnival". The French musician Alfred Rode appears with his band.
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I Remember Mama (play) I Remember Mama is a play by John Van Druten based on Kathryn Forbes' novel "Mama's Bank Account", which was loosely based on her childhood. It is a study of family life centered on a Norwegian immigrant family in San Francisco early in the 20th century. The play premiered on Broadway on October 19, 1944 at the Music Box Theatre in New York City, where it ran for 713 performances; it was produced by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II. The cast included Mady Christians, Oscar Homolka, and Joan Tetzel. Marlon Brando played a minor role, making his Broadway debut as Nels.
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Ernest Thesiger Ernest Frederic Graham Thesiger, CBE (15 January 1879 – 14 January 1961) was an English stage and film actor. He is especially well-remembered for his performance as Doctor Septimus Pretorius in James Whale's film "Bride of Frankenstein" (1935).
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You're a Sweetheart You're a Sweetheart is a 1937 musical film directed by David Butler. The movie stars Alice Faye, George Murphy and Ken Murray and was remade in 1943 under the title "Cowboy in Manhattan".
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The Butter and Egg Man (1928 film) The Butter and Egg Man is a 1928 American silent comedy film directed by Richard Wallace and starring Jack Mulhall, Greta Nissen and Sam Hardy. It is based on the 1925 play "The Butter and Egg Man". It was remade by the studio's successor company Warner Brothers as a sound film "Hello, Sweetheart" in 1935.
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Du Barry, Woman of Passion Du Barry, Woman of Passion is a 1930 talking film drama starring Norma Talmadge, produced by her husband Joseph Schenck, released through United Artists, and based on a 1901 stage play "Du Barry" written and produced by David Belasco and starring Mrs. Leslie Carter.
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The Pajama Game (film) The Pajama Game is a 1957 musical film based on the stage musical of the same name. The principal cast of the Broadway musical repeated their roles for the movie, with the exception of Janis Paige, whose role is played by Doris Day, and Stanley Prager, whose role is played by Jack Straw.
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Lady Frederick Lady Frederick is a comedy by the British writer W. Somerset Maugham, written early in his career. The play was first seen in London in 1907, and was very successful, running for 422 performances. The title role was played by Ethel Irving. In New York it was first performed in 1908, with Lady Frederick played by Ethel Barrymore, who reprised her role in the play's film adaptation, "The Divorcee".
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Major Barbara (film) Major Barbara is a 1941 British film starring Wendy Hiller and Rex Harrison. The film was produced and directed by Gabriel Pascal and edited by David Lean. It was adapted for the screen by Marjorie Deans and Anatole de Grunwald, based on the 1905 stage play "Major Barbara" by George Bernard Shaw. It was both a critical and financial success.
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Madeleine (opera) Madeleine is an opera in one act by Victor Herbert set to a libretto by Grant Stewart, after the French play "Je dîne chez ma mère" (I'm dining at my mother's house) by Adrien Decourcelle and Lambert-Thiboust. It premiered at the Metropolitan Opera in New York on 24 January 1914 with Frances Alda in the title role.
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Camille (1926 feature film) Camille is a 1926 American silent film based on the play adaptation of "La Dame aux Camélias" ("The Lady of the Camellias") by Alexandre Dumas, "fils", first published in French as a novel in 1848 and as a play in 1852. Adapted by Fred De Gresac, George Marion Jr., Olga Printzlau, and Chandler Sprague, "Camille" was a directed by Fred Niblo and starred Norma Talmadge as Camille and Gilbert Roland as her lover, Armand. It was produced by the Norma Talmadge Film Corporation and released by First National Pictures. The film's score was composed by William Axt.
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Engaged (play) Engaged is a three-act farcical comic play by W. S. Gilbert. It premiered at the Haymarket Theatre on 3 October 1877, the same year as "The Sorcerer", one of Gilbert's comic operas written with Arthur Sullivan, which was soon followed by the collaborators' great success in "H.M.S. Pinafore". "Engaged" was well received on the London stage and then in New York City, where the first production of the play opened in February 1879. The work then enjoyed many revivals on both sides of the Atlantic and continues to be produced today.