Product Details

• Actors: Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy, Edward Everett Horton, Binnie Barnes, Reginald Owen
• Format: NTSC
• Language: English
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
• VHS Release Date: December 11, 1992
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6301969235
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #100,671 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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25 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I Married An Angel - MacDonald and Eddy's Last Hurrah, February 28, 2002

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Carole G. (Chicago Area IL United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: I Married an Angel [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This movie is a cult classic for musical lovers. This was the last movie that Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy made together and you can see that the actors have matured and are comfortable with one another. The actors' facial expressions, body language and overall acting all combine to completely charm the watcher of this movie. Watch closely as Nelson and Jeanette look at each other at the birthday party -- it's enough to give you that little tingle that goes all the way down to your tummy! What a beautiful couple! What gorgeous costuming! What wonderful songs! There are no others that have voices that blend so beautifully as Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy and there has not been a couple like these two since. Every song in this movie leaves a lasting impression and you find you will hum these songs after the movie ends. The story line is enchanting. I have loved this movie since the first time I saw it as a child and I love it still today. I highly recommend this movie.

18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars ABSOLUTELY HEAVENLY..., December 8, 2002

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Lawyeraau (Balmoral Castle) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: I Married an Angel [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This is an absolutely charming fantasy film. I love it! Of course, since I was a child, I have always been partial to Nelson Eddy/Jeanette MacDonald films. Together, they made beautiful music. This film is particularly bittersweet, as it was their final film together, forever ending a wonderful musical chapter in Hollywood history.

Based upon the Rogers and Hart broadway hit, the film's plot is simple. Taking place in Budapest, a handsome and rich banker, thirty something playboy, Count William Palaffi (Nelson Eddy), falls asleep at his birthday party, dreaming of being married to a heaven sent angel named Brigitta (Jeanette MacDonald). The dream tracks the early days of their marriage and her transition from angel to devil in an effort to please her husband. When he awakens, he realizes that his angel has been there all along, as Ms. Szabo (Jeanette MacDonald), a secretary from his bank who had attended his costume birthday fete dressed up as an angel is a doppelganger for Brigitta. The path to true love is a strange one, indeed!

The costumes are lovely in this film, and the music is glorious. Though filmed in 1942, the film still has some of the sumptuousness of filming associated with the nineteen thirties. Highly stylized, it is a musical that those who love vintage films will surely enjoy. Bravo!

21 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Censors triumph over angels, March 27, 2001

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Eleanor Knowles (San Francisco, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: I Married an Angel [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Rodger's and Hart's spritely Broadway musical had originally been written for the screen in 1933 with Jeanette MacDonald as the intended Angel. When the code came in, a story about an angel who loses her wings on her wedding night became too risky, so R&H bought the property back from Paramount and did it on Broadway with Dennis King and Vivienne Segal. It was a huge hit, and many of its songs became classics. MGM bought the film rights for the MacDonald/Eddy team. But 1942 censors were no more sympathetic to the story, and the film plot got chopped to bits, making some of the final result incomprehensible. Nevertheless, the music is glorious, and Jeanette has a good time going from Angel to Devil, all for love of playboy Willy (Nelson Eddy). It would be their final film together, though both made more films and continued their hectic concert and radio schedules. Binnie Barnes has an especially delightful supporting role and does a jitterbug with Jeanette.