New Moon (1940 film)

New Moon
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Robert Z. Leonard W. S. Van Dyke
Produced by	Robert Z. Leonard
Written by	Robert Arthur Jacques Deval
Based on	The New Moon 1928 operetta by Sigmund Romberg Oscar Hammerstein II
Starring	Jeanette MacDonald Nelson Eddy Mary Boland George Zucco
Music by	Herbert Stothart
Cinematography	William H. Daniels
Edited by	Harold F. Kress
Production company	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release dates	July 19, 1940 (1940-07-19)
Running time	105 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$1,487,000^[1]
Box office	$1,290,000 (domestic earnings)^[1] $1,237,000 (foreign earnings)^[1]

New Moon is a 1940 musical film released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and directed by Robert Z. Leonard, with uncredited direction by W. S. Van Dyke.

It is the second film adaptation of the operetta The New Moon, which premiered on Broadway in 1928. The stage version featured music by Sigmund Romberg and book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II and others. The first film adaptation, also titled New Moon, which premiered in 1930, was less faithful to the stage version.

Plot summary

During the 18th century in New Orleans, Louisiana, a French nobleman in disguise as a bondsman, Charles (Nelson Eddy) leads his fellow bondsman in revolt against his ship's captain, commandeering the ship and heading out to sea.

Cast

Jeanette MacDonald as Marianne de Beaumanoir
Nelson Eddy as Charles (Henri), Duc de Villiers
Mary Boland as Valerie de Rossac
George Zucco as Vicomte Ribaud
H. B. Warner as Father Michel
Grant Mitchell as Governor of New Orleans
Stanley Fields as Tambour
Dick Purcell as Alexander
John Miljan as Pierre Brugnon
Ivan F. Simpson as Guizot
William Tannen as Pierre
Bunty Cutler as Julie
Claude King as Monsieur Dubois
Cecil Cunningham as Governor's Wife
Joe Yule as Maurice

References

1 2 3 Turk, Edward Baron (1998). Hollywood Diva: A Biography of Jeanette MacDonald. University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-22253-9.

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to New Moon (1940 film).

New Moon at the American Film Institute Catalog
New Moon (1940) at the Internet Movie Database
New Moon at AllMovie
New Moon at the TCM Movie Database

The MacDonald & Eddy Musicals

Naughty Marietta (1935) Rose Marie (1936) Maytime (1937) The Girl of the Golden West (1938) Sweethearts (1938) New Moon (1940) Bitter Sweet (1940) I Married an Angel (1942)

The films of Robert Z. Leonard

The Master Key (1914)
Judge Not; or The Woman of Mona Diggings (1915)
Secret Love (1916)
The Plow Girl (1916)
On Record (1917)
A Mormon Maid (1917)
The Primrose Ring (1917)
At First Sight (1917)
Face Value (1918)
The Bride's Awakening (1918)
Danger, Go Slow (1918)
The Delicious Little Devil (1919)
The Miracle of Love (1919)
April Folly (1920)
The Restless Sex (1920)
The Gilded Lily (1921)
Heedless Moths (1921)
Peacock Alley (1922)
Fascination (1922)
Broadway Rose (1922)
Jazzmania (1923)
Mademoiselle Midnight (1924)
Circe, the Enchantress (1924)
Cheaper to Marry (1925)
Time, the Comedian (1925)
Bright Lights (1925)
Dance Madness (1926)
Mademoiselle Modiste (1926)
The Waning Sex (1926)
A Little Journey (1927)
The Demi-Bride (1927)
Adam and Evil (1927)
Tea for Three (1927)
Baby Mine (1928)
The Cardboard Lover (1928)
A Lady of Chance (1928)
Marianne (1929, silent)
Marianne (1929, musical)
The Divorcee (1930)
In Gay Madrid (1930)
Let Us Be Gay (1930)
The Bachelor Father (1931)
Five and Ten (1931)
It's a Wise Child (1931)
Susan Lenox (Her Fall and Rise) (1931)
Lovers Courageous (1932)
Strange Interlude (1932)
Peg o' My Heart (1933)
Dancing Lady (1933)
Outcast Lady (1934)
After Office Hours (1935)
Naughty Marietta (1935)
Escapade (1935)
A Tale of Two Cities (1935)
The Great Ziegfeld (1936)
Piccadilly Jim (1936)
Maytime (1937)
The Firefly (1937)
The Girl of the Golden West (1938)
Broadway Serenade (1939)
New Moon (1940)
Pride and Prejudice (1940)
Third Finger, Left Hand (1940)
Ziegfeld Girl (1941)
When Ladies Meet (1941)
We Were Dancing (1942)
Stand By for Action (1942)
The Man from Down Under (1943)
Marriage Is a Private Affair (1944)
Week-End at the Waldorf (1945)
The Secret Heart (1946)
Cynthia (1947)
B.F.'s Daughter (1948)
The Bribe (1949)
In the Good Old Summertime (1949)
Nancy Goes to Rio (1950)
Duchess of Idaho (1950)
Grounds for Marriage (1951)
Too Young to Kiss (1951)
Everything I Have Is Yours (1952)
The Clown (1953)
The Great Diamond Robbery (1953)
Her Twelve Men (1954)
The King's Thief (1955)
Beautiful but Dangerous (1955)

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