

“Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy together for the first time!”
In order to avoid a prearranged marriage, a rebellious French princess sheds her identity and escapes to colonial New Orleans, where she finds an unlikely true love.
Director
Director
Screenplay
Screenplay
Screenplay
Status
Released
Original Language
EN
Budget
$782,000
Revenue
$2,057,000

Wealthy American, Jervis Pendleton has a chance encounter at a French orphanage with a cheerful 18-year-old resident, and anonymously pays for her education at a New England college. She writes letters to her mysterious benefactor regularly, but he never writes back. Several years later, he visits her at school, while still concealing his identity, and—despite their large age difference—they soon fall in love.


Prince de Namours de la Bonfain, Marietta's Uncle
Tom Sawyer and his pal Huckleberry Finn have great adventures on the Mississippi River, pretending to be pirates, attending their own funeral, and witnessing a murder.