---
title: 'Sweethearts (1938)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Robert Z. Leonard'
released: '1938-12-22'
runtime_minutes: 115
genres:
  - 'Music'
  - 'Romance'
countries:
  - 'United States'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/sweethearts-1938'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0030817/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Sweethearts (1938)

1938 · 115 min · Music, Romance · United States


## Synopsis

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. It was their first film together without uniforms or period costumes. Filming started on June 16, 1938 and concluded on September 13, 1938.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Robert Z. Leonard](https://cinepixo.com/people/robert-z-leonard), [W. S. Van Dyke](https://cinepixo.com/people/w-s-van-dyke)
- **Screenplay:** [Dorothy Parker](https://cinepixo.com/people/dorothy-parker), [Alan Campbell](https://cinepixo.com/people/alan-campbell-2)
- **Producer:** [Hunt Stromberg](https://cinepixo.com/people/hunt-stromberg)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Victor Herbert](https://cinepixo.com/people/victor-herbert), [Herbert Stothart](https://cinepixo.com/people/herbert-stothart)
- **Director of Photography:** [Oliver T. Marsh](https://cinepixo.com/people/oliver-t-marsh), [Allen M. Davey](https://cinepixo.com/people/allen-m-davey)
- **Editor:** [Robert J. Kern](https://cinepixo.com/people/robert-j-kern)

## Cast

- [Maude Turner Gordon](https://cinepixo.com/people/maude-turner-gordon)
- [Nelson Eddy](https://cinepixo.com/people/nelson-eddy)
- [Allyn Joslyn](https://cinepixo.com/people/allyn-joslyn)
- [Lucile Watson](https://cinepixo.com/people/lucile-watson)
- [Kathleen Lockhart](https://cinepixo.com/people/kathleen-lockhart)
- [Reginald Gardiner](https://cinepixo.com/people/reginald-gardiner)
- [Mischa Auer](https://cinepixo.com/people/mischa-auer)
- [Frank Morgan](https://cinepixo.com/people/frank-morgan)
- [George Barbier](https://cinepixo.com/people/george-barbier)
- [Florence Rice](https://cinepixo.com/people/florence-rice)
- [Gene Lockhart](https://cinepixo.com/people/gene-lockhart)
- [James Flavin](https://cinepixo.com/people/james-flavin)
- [Fay Holden](https://cinepixo.com/people/fay-holden)
- [Herman Bing](https://cinepixo.com/people/herman-bing)
- [George Cooper](https://cinepixo.com/people/george-cooper)

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