Rida Johnson Young


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Naughty Marietta (1935) -- (Movie Clip) Chansonette We’ve just met Jeanette MacDonald as flighty French princess Marie, visiting with her musical mentor Herr Schuman (Joseph Cawthorne), then joining his rowdy students for a song from the original operetta by Victor Herbert and Rida Johnson Young, in her first MGM feature with Nelson Eddy, Naughty Marietta, 1935.
Naughty Marietta (1935) -- (Movie Clip) Tramp, Tramp, Tramp Jeanette MacDonald is princess Marie, posing as one of a group of French would-be mail-order brides, captured by pirates en route to New Orleans, trouble brewing when an ill-defined group of “Yankee Scouts” led by Nelson Eddy appears, his first song in their first feature together, by Victor Herbert and Rida Johnson Young, in Naughty Marietta, 1935.
Naughty Marietta (1935) -- (Movie Clip) Ah, Sweet Mystery Of Life Nearing the climax, in colonial New Orleans, after her first stanza introducing the song, reaffirming her love for brave commoner Richard (Nelson Eddy), he joins politically obligated princess Marie (Jeanette MacDonald) in the most famous song from their first MGM feature, by Victor Herbert and Rida Johnson Young, in Naughty Marietta, 1935.
Ocean's Eleven (1960) -- (Movie Clip) Tell Your Mother Hello Among the best scenes carried by actors other-than Frank Sinatra (title character Danny Ocean), as WWII buddies Sam (Dean Martin) and Jimmy (Peter Lawford) catch up, the latter chatting with his mother (Ilka Chase), considering the heist, before the ringleader joins, in the original Ocean's Eleven, 1960.
Maytime (1937) -- (Movie Clip) Will You Remember? With breaks for dialogue as Marcia (Jeanette MacDonald) breaks bad news to Paul (Nelson Eddy), they join in Will You Remember? by Rida Johnson Young and Sigmund Romberg, in MGM's Maytime, 1937.

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