| Maytime | |
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&sq=Qlik&lang=&file=File:Maytime_poster.jpg) Original film poster | |
| Directed by | Robert Z. Leonard |
| Written by | Noel Langley Claudine West (treatment) |
| Based on | Maytime 1917 operetta by Rida Johnson Young |
| Produced by | Robert Z. Leonard Hunt Stromberg Gregor Rabinovitch (uncredited) |
| Starring | Jeanette MacDonald Nelson Eddy John Barrymore |
| Cinematography | Oliver T. Marsh |
| Edited by | Conrad A. Nervig |
| Music by | Herbert Stothart Edward Ward |
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| Distributed by | Loew's Inc. |
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Running time | 132 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $2,126,000[1] |
| Box office | $2,183,000 (earnings in the U.S.)[1] $1,823,000 (earnings in other markets)[1] |
Maytime is a 1937 American musical and romantic-drama film produced by MGM. It was directed by Robert Z. Leonard, and stars Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy. The screenplay was rewritten from the book for Sigmund Romberg's 1917 operetta Maytime by Rida Johnson Young, Romberg's librettist; however, only one musical number by Romberg was retained.
The film's story greatly resembles that of Noël Coward's operetta Bitter Sweet, including the "frame story" surrounding the main plot. Three years later, MGM filmed Bitter Sweet (1940), a Technicolor version, but altered the plot so that audiences would not notice the similarities.
- ^ a b c Turk, Edward Baron (1998). Hollywood Diva: A Biography of Jeanette MacDonald. University of California Press. p. 365. ISBN 978-0-520-22253-3.