Comet Over Hollywood Posted by on May 23, 2022

It’s no secret that the Hollywood Comet loves musicals. In 2010, I revealed I had seen 400 movie musicals over the course of eight years. Now that number is over 600. To celebrate and share this musical love, here is my weekly feature about musicals. This week’s musical: Maytime (1937)...   read more

4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on May 12, 2020

The arrival of a local May Fair celebration brings back a flurry of bittersweet memories for elderly Miss Morrison (a made-up Jeanette MacDonald). She fondly recalls some past romantic dreams that we have yet to discover, which color how she sees the young lovers before her, caught in a quarrel....   read more

Comet Over Hollywood Posted by on May 13, 2019

It’s no secret that the Hollywood Comet loves musicals. In 2010, I revealed I had seen 400 movie musicals over the course of eight years. Now that number is over 500. To celebrate and share this musical love, here is my weekly feature about musicals. This week’s musical: Maytime in...   read more

In The Good Old Days Of Classic Hollywood Posted by Crystal Kalyana on April 25, 2015

MUSICAL MONTH MAYTIME ( 1937 ) A few years ago I was fortunate enough to see “Maytime” on the big screen at the cinemas. When the film finished, it left me with not only a greater appreciation for operatic musicals, but a lifelong interest in John Barrymore, who I had...   read more

Flickers in Time Posted by Beatrice on October 18, 2013

Maytime Directed  by Robert Z. Leonard Written by Noel Langley based on an operetta by Rida Johnson Young 1937/USA Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer First viewing I enjoyed 1937′s beautiful and romantic Jeanette Mac Donald/Nelson Eddy entry. As the story opens elderly reclusive Miss Morrison (Mac Donald)   read more