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The Road to Wellville (1994)

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Chocolate Soldier, The (1941) -- (Movie Clip) Song Of The Flea

Chocolate Soldier, The (1941) -- (Movie Clip) My Hero

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The Road to Wellville (1994)

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Going My Way - Movie Posters

Here are a few original-release movie posters for Paramount's Going My Way (1944), starring Bing Crosby and Barry Fitzgerald.

The Chocolate Soldier - Kapralik Trade Ad

Here is a trade ad for MGM's The Chocolate Soldier (1941), starring Nelson Eddy and Rise Stevens. The art is by mixed-media caricaturist Jaques Kapralik. Trade Ads were placed by studios in industry magazines like Variety and The Hollywood Reporter.

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Chocolate Soldier, The (1941) -- (Movie Clip) Song Of The Flea Aiming to test her loyalty, Viennese opera star Karl (Nelson Eddy) appears at the club where his wife Maria (Rise Stevens) and best pal Bernard (Nigel Bruce) are in the audience, disguised as a romantic Russian, in MGM’s The Chocolate Soldier, 1941.

Chocolate Soldier, The (1941) -- (Movie Clip) My Hero Right from the start, MGM offers their new star, Rise Stevens from The Metropolitan Opera in her first movie scene, paired with leading man Nelson Eddy, as Viennese light-opera singers Maria and Karl, with a song from the Ferenc Molnar-based operetta Testor, using only the title from the George Bernard Shaw play, The Chocolate Soldier, 1941.

Chocolate Soldier, The (1941) -- (Movie Clip) Mon Couer S'Ouvre A Ta Voix Rise Stevens, with her second song in her first movie, is observed by her husband (Nelson Eddy, with pal Nigel Bruce), indulging her urge to move from her Vienna musical theater career into high opera, with a song from Saint-Saens, in MGM’s mix-and-match musical The Chocolate Soldier, 1941.

Carnegie Hall (1947) -- (Movie Clip) Rise Stevens Marsha Hunt is a maid on the staff, mother of an aspiring pianist (William Prince), their chat leading to another performance, by mezzo-soprano Rise Stevens, star of the Metropolitan Opera, with a selection from her celebrated interpretation of Bizet's "Carmen," in Carnegie Hall, 1947.

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