Word: gratis
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lovely young Marcia Mornay (Jeanette MacDonald), enjoying the first fruits of success as an opera singer. After rendering two songs at a court soiree, Marcia goes home with her manager, Nazaroff, agrees to marry him as a reward for making her rich & famous. As cinemaddicts are well aware, grati tude is a bad excuse for matrimony. No sooner is Marcia engaged to Nazaroff than she meets a romantic young baritone, Paul Allison (Nelson Eddy), who lives in a garret with his teacher (Herman Bing). Marcia and Paul have one happy afternoon singing duets at a Mayday festival...
...used to receiving kudos (he has one LL. D. from the University of Edinburgh), Lecturer Chesterton accepted the honor with the following words: "Gratitude is the only thing worth expressing on an occasion of this kind, but it is one of the ironies of human nature that grati tude can never be fully and completely expressed in words. My sense of unworthiness is so acute that I cannot describe...
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