Busted!

Watching Maytime. and she starts telling her story and how she hit the big time singing for Emperor Louis Napoleon. but she sang Les Filles de Cadix (which I sang in my junior recital) and I was thinking it was more recent than that. I was partly right, I couldn't remember the composer, Delibes. Anyhoo, if these people are correct it was first published in 1887. and according to Wikipedia, Napoleon III died in 1873.

So, here's a clip, they cut a verse which is fine since most people probably don't know what she's singing about anyway and won't be bothered that part of the story is missing.



update: Just finished it and damn. These people can act and sing. I'm loving Jeannette MacDonald the more I see and hear of her, but there isn't much available on DVD (Netflix doesn't have anything with her and Nelson Eddy)