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Director
  
W. S. Van Dyke

Screenplay
  
Anita Loos

Country
  
United States

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Genre
  
Fantasy, Musical, Romance

Duration
  

Language
  
English

I Married an Angel (film) movie poster
Release date
  
July 9, 1942 (1942-07-09) (U.S.)

Writer
  
Johann von Vasary (play), Richard Rodgers (musical adaptation for play), Lorenz Hart (musical adaptation for play), Anita Loos (screenplay)

Cast
  
Jeanette MacDonald
(Anna / Brigitta),
Nelson Eddy
(Count Palaffi),
Edward Everett Horton
(Peter),
Binnie Barnes
(Peggy),
Reginald Owen
('Whiskers'),
Douglass Dumbrille
(Baron Szigethy)

Music director
  
Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart, Herbert Stothart, George Forrest, Robert Wright

Similar movies
  
City of Angels
,
A Life Less Ordinary
,
A Matter of Life and Death
,
Don't Tempt Me
,
Ice Angel
,
Welcome to Purgatory

Tagline
  
America's Favorite Sweethearts in their final pairing!

Anna Zador (Jeanette MacDonald) has been in love with Count Willie Palaffi (Nelson Eddy) for six years, but he has never shown an interest in her, for she is just a lowly secretary at his bank. Willie believes the only woman good enough for him would be an angel descended from heaven. So, when an actual angel shows up, Willie thinks he has found his match. However, in a case of "be careful what you wish for," he learns that having an angel for a wife is more troublesome than hed imagined.

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I Married an Angel is an a 1942 American motion picture based on the 1938 musical comedy of the same name by Rodgers and Hart. The film was directed by W. S. Van Dyke and starred Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy, who were then a popular onscreen couple. Supporting cast members included Edward Everett Horton, Binnie Barnes, Reginald Owen, Douglass Dumbrille, Mona Maris, and Odette Myrtil.

A playboy drops his many girlfriends when he falls in love with a grounded angel.

Music

It featured several additional songs not written by Rodgers and Hart. Romantic composer Eva DellAcquas song "Villanelle" for coloratura soprano appeared on the soundtrack of the film.

  • "But What of Truth?" (written for the 1942 film with music by Herbert Stothart and lyrics by George Forrest and Robert Wright)
  • "Hey Butcher" (written for the 1942 film with music by Herbert Stothart and lyrics by George Forrest and Robert Wright)
  • "May I Present the Girl" (written for the 1942 film with music by Herbert Stothart and lyrics by George Forrest and Robert Wright)
  • "There Comes a Time" (written for the 1942 film with music by Herbert Stothart and lyrics by George Forrest and Robert Wright)
  • "Tira Lira La" (written for the 1942 film with music by Richard Rodgers and lyrics by George Forrest and Robert Wright)
  • "To Count Palaffi" (written for the 1942 film with music by Herbert Stothart and lyrics by George Forrest and Robert Wright)

    • Reception

    According to MGM records, the film earned $664,000 at the US and Canadian box office and $572,000 elsewhere, making the studio a loss of $725,000 - the studios least successful film of 1942. It was the last of the MacDonald-Eddy films.

    References

    I Married an Angel (film) Wikipedia
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    I Married an Angel (film) IMDb I Married an Angel (film) themoviedb.org


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