Rose-Marie [1936] [DVD]

Admittedly, the phenomenally successful 1930s musicals of “America's Sweethearts”, Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy, creak mightily now, but there is still abundant fun in this loose adaptation of the Otto Harback-Oscar Hammerstein II-Rudolf Friml-Herbert Stothart operetta combined here with a manhunt melodrama.

Opera singer MacDonald falls in love with Canadian Mountie Nelson while trying to shield her ne'er-do-well fugitive kid brother Jimmy Stewart from the lawman's dogged pursuit. A highlight is the fabled twosome's duet of Indian Love Call.

Watch, too, for a brief appearance by eager-to-please newcomer David Niven as Rose Marie's would-be suitor.