This whimsical black-and-white film marked the eighth and last film pairing of Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy. As the most eligible bachelor in Budapest, Count Palaffi grows weary of scheming women and dreams of a beautiful escape, a dream that yields opportunities to pair the count, played by Eddy, with a singing angel, MacDonald. The title tune is by Richard Rogers and Lorenz Hart, who preceded Oscar Hammerstein II as Rogers' writing partner, and "I'll Tell the Man in the Street" is also one of their best. "Tira Lira La," or "We're the Girls Who Want to Marry Willie" is pretty amusing, as the set is a costume party with wonderfully outlandish outfits on a bevy of babes, and one cannot miss the racist overtones of the three little black children who are given a few brief lines in the number. Mostly this movie is a good example of how toned down so many film treatments of clever plays were because of the censorious Hays Code.
Review of I Married an Angel
