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Bookmark this pageNew Moon (1940)
Director: Robert Z Leonard
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From Time Out Film Guide
The Romberg-Hammerstein operetta with its setting switched from Tsarist Russia to New Orleans in the hope that audiences would identify it with the hugely successful (and remarkably similar) Naughty Marietta as MacDonald's haughty aristocrat falls for Eddy's gallant bondslave (but he's really a French Duke, exiled for his egalitarian beliefs since the year is 1789). The score isn't bad, otherwise the mixture is as before, only stodgier.Author: TM
Cast & crew
Director: Robert Z Leonard
Producer: Robert Z Leonard
Cast: Jeanette MacDonald full cast
Genre(s): Musicals
Duration: 105 mins
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