Sweethearts (1938 film)
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| Directed by | W.S. Van Dyke |
| Written by | book: Fred de Gresac Harry B. Smith Robert B. Smith |
| Screenplay by | Alan Campbell Dorothy Parker Laura Perelman S.J. Perelman |
| Based on | Sweethearts (1913) by Fred de Gresac Harry B. Smith Robert Bache Smith |
| Produced by | Hunt Stromberg |
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| Cinematography | Oliver T. Marsh Allen M. Davey |
| Edited by | Robert Kern |
| Music by | Victor Herbert Herbert Stothart |
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| Distributed by | Loew's, Inc. |
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Running time | 114 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $1.9 million |
| Box office | $2 million (domestic earnings) $1.2 million (foreign earnings) |
Sweethearts is a 1938 American Technicolor musical romance film directed by W.S. Van Dyke and starring Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy. The screenplay, by Dorothy Parker and Alan Campbell, uses the “play within a play” device: a Broadway production of the 1913 Victor Herbert operetta is the setting for another pair of sweethearts, the stars of the show. It was the first color film for Nelson or Jeanette (as well as MGM's first three strip Technicolor feature). It was their first film together without uniforms or period costumes.