TopTenREVIEWS presents the film career and movie reviews of Jeanette MacDonald.

Jeanette MacDonald
Birthdate: June 18, 1903
Death date: January 14, 1965

Jeanette MacDonald

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CAREER SPAN

Decade
Movie Score
# Movies
1920s
No Reviews
1
1930s
3.1837
20
total ranking of 3.1837
1940s
1.8967
8
total ranking of 1.8967
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews & awards.
Overall Actor Score: Jeanette MacDonald is ranked overall as 2.5781 of of 4 stars2.5781

Jeanette MacDonald Movie Rankings

1
Jeanette MacDonald starring in Merry Widow
Jeanette MacDonald scores a combined 3.0455 out of 4 stars for Merry Widow3.0455
The small kingdom of Marshovia has a little problem. ...more about Merry Widow
  • Not Available on DVD
2
Jeanette MacDonald starring in Love Me Tonight
Jeanette MacDonald scores a combined 2.8446 out of 4 stars for Love Me Tonight2.8446
Maurice Courtelin, a Parisian tailor (Maurice Chevalier), is owed a great sum of money by a viscount (Charles Ruggles). Stalling for time, the titled but penniless nobleman moves Maurice into the family chateau and passes him off as a baron. ...more about Love Me Tonight
3
Jeanette MacDonald starring in Maytime
Jeanette MacDonald scores a combined 2.7510 out of 4 stars for Maytime2.7510
An elderly Miss Morrison recounts her life as the once young and beautiful opera singer Marcia Morney-then the toast of Napoleon III's Paris. One evening, she encounters an American voice student, Paul Allison, and the two unexpectedly fall in love. ...more about Maytime
4
San Francisco (1936)
Jeanette MacDonald scores a combined 2.6726 out of 4 stars for San Francisco2.6726
Mary Blake arrives at Blackie Norton's Paradise gambling hall and beer garden looking for work as a singer. Blackie embarrasses her by asking to see her legs, but does hire her. She faints from hunger. ...more about San Francisco
5
Cat and the Fiddle, The (1934)
Jeanette MacDonald scores a combined 2.6574 out of 4 stars for Cat and the Fiddle2.6574
Jeanette MacDonald plays an American music student in Europe whose success threatens her relationship with a handsome composer played by Ramon Novarro. Novarro's troubles begin with their meeting and don't end until the premiere of his problematic stage show. ...more about Cat and the Fiddle
  • Not Available on DVD
6
Sweethearts (1938)
Jeanette MacDonald scores a combined 2.6026 out of 4 stars for Sweethearts2.6026
A musical comedy duo in their 6th year on Broadway receive an offer to perform in Hollywood making films. ...more about Sweethearts
  • Not Available on DVD
7
One Hour with You (1932)
Jeanette MacDonald scores a combined 2.4816 out of 4 stars for One Hour with You2.4816
Andre and Colette Bertier are happily married. When Colette introduces her husband to her flirtatious best friend, Mitzi, he does his best to resist her advances. But she is persistent, and very cute, and he succumbs. ...more about One Hour with You
  • Not Available on DVD
8
Lottery Bride, The (1930)
Jeanette MacDonald scores a combined 2.3561 out of 4 stars for Lottery Bride2.3561
In Oslo, Norway, Jenny (who loves stalwart Chris) enters a dance marathon to help her embezzler brother out of a jam; her actions cause misunderstanding and Chris flees to a far northern mining camp. ...more about Lottery Bride
  • Not Available on DVD
9
New Moon (1940)
Jeanette MacDonald scores a combined 2.2282 out of 4 stars for New Moon2.2282
Marianne de Beaumaniour is on her way to New Orleans from Paris to inspect the plantation she inherited from her uncle. On the ship with her are bondsmen, that are to be sold for slavery. ...more about New Moon
  • Not Available on DVD
10
Naughty Marietta (1935)
Jeanette MacDonald scores a combined 2.0227 out of 4 stars for Naughty Marietta2.0227
Princess Marie de Namours de la Bonfain is a beautiful, young, sophisticated French princess of 23, who finds more worth in true love than a title. ...more about Naughty Marietta
  • Not Available on DVD
11
Monte Carlo (1930)
Jeanette MacDonald scores a combined 1.8721 out of 4 stars for Monte Carlo1.8721
Countess Vera von Conti checks into Monte Carlo. She's down to her last 10,000 francs and has fled from her husband-to-be, Prince Otto von Seibenehim. ...more about Monte Carlo
  • Not Available on DVD
12
I Married an Angel (1942)
Jeanette MacDonald scores a combined 1.8264 out of 4 stars for I Married an Angel1.8264
Anna Zador is a secretary who's been working for 6 years at Count Willie Palaffi's bank. Every day, she rides to work on her bike and places flowers on Willie's desk, but Willie (the Budapest playboy) doesn't know that she exists. ...more about I Married an Angel
  • Not Available on DVD
13
Bitter Sweet (1940)
Jeanette MacDonald scores a combined 1.8173 out of 4 stars for Bitter Sweet1.8173
In order to avoid an arranged marriage with a man she doesn't love, Sarah Millick runs off to Vienna with her music teacher, Carl Linden, whom she does love. They are married. In Vienna, they struggle to make a living by making music. ...more about Bitter Sweet
  • Not Available on DVD
14
Smilin' Through (1941)
Jeanette MacDonald scores a combined 1.5707 out of 4 stars for Smilin' Through1.5707
John Carteret has long been depressed and lonely, because, at his wedding years ago, his bride, Moonyean, was murdered. He accepts into his house Kathleen, the 5 year old orphaned niece of Moonyean, and she quickly grows up to look just like her aunt. ...more about Smilin' Through
  • Not Available on DVD
15
Annabelle's Affairs (1931)
No Reviews Available
After only 11 hours of marriage, Annabelle and her husband separate-not knowing what each other truly looks like. Annabelle is given stocks in a mining enterprise by her husband and told not to part with them. ...more about Annabelle's Affairs
  • Not Available on DVD
16
Broadway Serenade (1939)
No Reviews Available
Mary Hale (a singer) and Jimmy Seymour (pianist/composer), are a show biz couple working in The Big Apple in small night clubs hoping to hit it big. One night, Larry Bryant (a Broadway producer) spots Mary and is taken with her beauty and golden voice. ...more about Broadway Serenade
  • Not Available on DVD
17
Cairo (1942)
No Reviews Available
Reporter Homer Smith accidently draws Marcia Warren into his mission to stop Nazis from bombing Allied Conwoys with robot-planes. ...more about Cairo
  • Not Available on DVD
18
Don't Bet on Women (1931)
No Reviews Available
At a big party, Roger Fallon, now a woman-hater, right to the core - this all due to a failed marriage and disastrous love affairs - talks to Herbert Drake. ...more about Don't Bet on Women
  • Not Available on DVD
19
Firefly, The (1937)
No Reviews Available
Nina Maria Azara is the beautiful and alluring singing spy for Spain during the Napoleonic Wars. Her mission is to seduce French Officers, in order for them to reveal Napolean's intentions toward Spain. ...more about Firefly
  • Not Available on DVD
20
Follow the Boys (1944)
No Reviews Available
During World War II, all the studios put out "all-star" vehicles which featured virtually every star on the lot--often playing themselves--in musical numbers and comedy skits, and were meant as morale-boosters to both the troops overseas and the ...more about Follow the Boys
  • Not Available on DVD
21
Girl of the Golden West, The (1938)
No Reviews Available
Mary Robbins is a moderately educated, beautiful, young woman who owns the saloon called "The Poker". She is the only woman in the town of Couldee-making her the fancy of all the men there, especially to Sheriff Jack Rance. ...more about Girl of the Golden West
  • Not Available on DVD
22
Hollywood on Parade (1932/II)
No Reviews Available
Short film filled with cameo appearances by many of the top film stars of the time. The best scene is at the film premiere, apparently the premiere was a costume event and many of the stars are dressed in various costumes. ...more about Hollywood on Parade
  • Not Available on DVD
23
Let's Go Native (1930)
No Reviews Available
Dress designer Joan Wood, who's heavily in debt, has created costumes for a Broadway show that is exported to Argentina. With the money she wants to pay her debts, but there was a mistake: she is receiving the money in Buenos Aires, not in New York. ...more about Let's Go Native
  • Not Available on DVD
24
Love Parade, The (1929)
No Reviews Available
Queen Louise's cabinet are worried that she will become an old maid, and are delighted when she marries the rougish Count Renard. ...more about Love Parade
  • Not Available on DVD
25
Oh, for a Man (1930)
No Reviews Available
Carlotta Manson is a young and beautiful opera star who wants some spice in her personal life. She threatens to forsake opera for a wild, romantic fling. ...more about Oh
  • Not Available on DVD
26
Rose-Marie (1936)
No Reviews Available
Opera singer (Marie de Flor) seeks out fugitive brother in the Canadian wilderness. During her trek, she meets a Canadian mountie (Sgt. Bruce) who is also searching for her brother. Romance ensues, resulting in several love duets between the two. ...more about Rose-Marie
  • Not Available on DVD
27
Sun Comes Up, The (1949)
No Reviews Available
Set in the rural south of the United States, a bereaved war widow learns to to put aside her bitterness and grief as she grows to love a young orphan boy and his dog. Punctuated with song-filled interludes. ...more about Sun Comes Up
  • Not Available on DVD
28
Three Daring Daughters (1948)
No Reviews Available
It's Tess' graduation day from "Miss Drakes School for Girls". During the choir's performance at the ceremony, Tess notices that her beautiful, divorcee mother, Louise Rayton Morgan isn't there. ...more about Three Daring Daughters
  • Not Available on DVD
29
Vagabond King, The (1930)
No Reviews Available
The story takes place in medieval France. Poet-rogue Francois Villon, sentenced to hang by King Louis XI for writing derogatory verses about him, is offered a temporary reprieve. ...more about Vagabond King
  • Not Available on DVD