Jeanette MacDonald: "Oh For a Man!" (1930) (best picture quality)

Jeanette's three Fox films were considered to be "lost" until the mid 1970s, when this print was found and transferred to 16mm from nitrate. This film has poor visual quality and shows nitrate damage including flickering mid film and lost soundtrack at one point. It's also missing a 10-minute reel in the middle of the film. Nevertheless, Jeanette is wonderful in it, a forerunner of her opera diva in "Rose Marie." Co-star is Reginald Denny and the plot is rather farfetched, an opera singer falling in love with a burglar. Whatever... A pre-Dracula Bela Lugosi plays her manager and Allison Skipworth co-stars as well. It's a rare treasure!

[@barbaraa.brearley2579]

Oh she had a beautiful voice. Thank you for this.

[@franmac2966]

The first 10 minutes has delightful echoes of Jeanette’s prima donna performance at the start of Rose Marie. Thanks for this gem ❤️

[@franmac2966]

Having now watched it entirely it is a bit of nonsense, but Jeanette is gorgeous as ever and it’s fun to watch if not taken too seriously 😊

[@maceddy]

Yes, the plot is rather silly but to hear Jeanette sing "Liebestod" and act the forerunner of her character in "Rose Marie" is worth the price of admission! But one can understand why she only stayed with Fox studios for 3 films and then left Hollywood altogether for a European concert tour.

[@elizabethdelara6786]

Jeanette so full of energy, On handsome Denny I researched he did sing in opera for a while and was a great entrepreneur in the airplane business.

[@reginvfvlvnge]

Marjorie White ❤ 👑

[@jamesryan6008]

I'm as much a fan of Jeanette MacDonald as anyone else but asking her to sing Isolde( if even for a few minutes)) is asking too much of her