Maytime

An opera singer, now old, looks back over a long life. What she tells includes her relations with her voice teacher and with a student. Singing lessons, the stage and private life run into each other inside the same account. The film takes the choice made between a career and love as a matter of regret. Jealousy builds the turning point of the story. The account looks from the present back into the past and gives events in the voice of the one remembering them. Opera scenes carry a good part of the body of the film. Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy and John Barrymore appear in Robert Z. Leonard’s hundred and thirty two minute American film, completed in 1937.