Magic

artzau

Forget the super-sweet aspects of this film.  Forget the paper-thin storyline.  To jump on this film using the standards that today's audience's exact is totally unfair.  This film was released in 1936 when the US was in the midst of the Great Depression and people needed mind candy that was super-sugarcoated.  But, before you ring off to surf some other site, listen the music created by two rather mediocre singers.  Their voices create a sound that is incredible.  They did again and again too.  From their biographies written by their children who discovered their love letters long after both Eddy and MacDonald were dead, it seems that the love clinches were more earnest than mere acting.  But, forget even that bit of gossip. Listen to the sound that these two made, in love with each other or not. It is something magic. And, fans, we just don't see much of that anymore.

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artzau 4 January 2001

Reprint: https://www.imdb.com/review/rw0015642/