Review of Sweethearts

Sweethearts (1938)
9/10
Janette's beautiful voice again
27 January 2019
Janette had such a radiant old fashioned beauty in her films, and her opera singing was always beautiful, along with the beautiful floorlength dresses she often wore to accompany her opera singing and opera image. Deanna Durban and Kathryn Grayson also had beautiful opera voices with the beautiful classy old fashioned floorlength dresses that always went together with their operatic singing. In general, women's opera singing and classy floorlength dresses always went together, you rarely saw one without the other in anything pre-1950s. Kathryn lit up the screen in "Anchor's aweigh", "Kiss me Kate" and "Toast of New Orleans", Deanna lit up the screen in "Because of him", "For the love of Mary", and "Can't help singing", and Janette lit up the screen in "Sweethearts", "Maytime", "Rose Marie", and "Naughty Marrietta". I love old fashioned better than modern in numerous ways. With women, I appreciate and prefer old fashioned beauty over sex appeal. With music, I completely prefer old fashioned over modern. With humor, I prefer Marx bros and Laurel and Hardy way over any lowbrow modern toilet humor.

Anyway, Janette and Nelson shone again singing the title song, I really enjoyed the show at the theater, and the after show they appeared in during the first 45 to 50 minutes of the film. Janette and Nelson had great chemistry again, no doubt sparked by the real life romance they had outside of the film sets. Good supporting characters here too, once again the great and amusing Frank Morgan.
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