Sundered lovers meet again amid tragic irony at a mining camp in northern Norway.Sundered lovers meet again amid tragic irony at a mining camp in northern Norway.Sundered lovers meet again amid tragic irony at a mining camp in northern Norway.
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Jeanette MacDonald
- Jenny
- (as Jeanette Mac Donald)
Joseph Macauley
- Alberto
- (as Joseph Macaulay)
Frank Brownlee
- Guard
- (uncredited)
Max Davidson
- Marriage Broker
- (uncredited)
Bobby Dunn
- Miner
- (uncredited)
Stanley Fields
- Bartender
- (uncredited)
Clarence Geldert
- Navigator
- (uncredited)
Betty Jane Graham
- Flower Girl
- (uncredited)
Dorothy Gray
- Flower Girl
- (uncredited)
Marilyn Harris
- Flower Girl
- (uncredited)
Robert Homans
- Miner
- (uncredited)
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- TriviaThis film is one of over 200 titles in the list of independent feature films made available for television presentation by Advance Television Pictures announced in Motion Picture Herald 4 April 1942. At this time, television broadcasting was in its infancy, almost totally curtailed by the advent of World War II, and would not continue to develop until 1945-1946. Because of poor documentation (feature films were often not identified by title in conventional sources) no record has yet been found of its initial television broadcast. It first aired In Cincinnati Friday 23 September 1949 on WCPO (Channel7) and in Salt Lake City Tuesday 27 December 1949 on KDYL (Channel 4).
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- Alternate versionsThe original 1930 theatrical release ran 80 minutes, and included tinted scenes, with the final reel in Technicolor. The film was cut to 67 minutes for a 1937 re-release, and shown in black-and-white only. A copy of the original release (with tinted and color sequences) does reside at George Eastman House, and was broadcast on Turner Classic Movies in 2011.
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An operetta about an Italian dirigible heading for the North Pole in a snowstorm has a lot going against it. Add to that - or rather subtract from that - a score by Rudolf Friml that does not have even one even slightly catchy number, and a script that gets worse and worse as it goes along, leaving reason and logic somewhere behind on the Norwegian tundra, and you have The Lottery Bride. Seldom has so much talent been so totally wasted, I'm afraid.
Jeanette MacDonald is really in very good voice in this picture, in particular in her one duet with her leading man. She does some fine singing, but it's a shame it's of music that is so completely bland. The two male leads also sing well.
But this plot is strictly from hunger - and I normally have no problem with silly operetta plots. This one is not at all funny. It is tedious melodrama with a lot of excessive acting.
If you like Jeanette MacDonald, as I do, you may be tempted to dismiss this review and give it a try. You'll be sorry, but you'll survive.
I can only wonder why Oscar Hammerstein would have wanted to produce this. It truly has absolutely nothing going for it. I couldn't wait for it to end, and didn't think it ever would. Actually, it doesn't come to an end; it just stops. There is still the crew of that dirigible stranded on the ice near the North Pole, and we never find out how they will get rescued. But we don't want to sit through any more to find out.
Jeanette MacDonald is really in very good voice in this picture, in particular in her one duet with her leading man. She does some fine singing, but it's a shame it's of music that is so completely bland. The two male leads also sing well.
But this plot is strictly from hunger - and I normally have no problem with silly operetta plots. This one is not at all funny. It is tedious melodrama with a lot of excessive acting.
If you like Jeanette MacDonald, as I do, you may be tempted to dismiss this review and give it a try. You'll be sorry, but you'll survive.
I can only wonder why Oscar Hammerstein would have wanted to produce this. It truly has absolutely nothing going for it. I couldn't wait for it to end, and didn't think it ever would. Actually, it doesn't come to an end; it just stops. There is still the crew of that dirigible stranded on the ice near the North Pole, and we never find out how they will get rescued. But we don't want to sit through any more to find out.
- richard-1787
- May 4, 2011
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- Runtime1 hour 20 minutes
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- 1.20 : 1
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