Maytime

This film opens in the early 20th century, with a young girl arguing with her boyfriend over her wishes to become an opera singer. The girl’s neighbor, a lonely old woman whom we gradually recognize as a convincingly “aged” Jeanette MacDonald, tells the girl of her own career in opera., In the third pairing of “Singing Sweethearts” Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald, she portrays an opera star reminiscing about her career and a tragic romance with a street singer (Eddy) in Paris and later the U.S. The score was Oscar-nominated.