Release CalendarDVD & Blu-ray ReleasesTop 250 MoviesMost Popular MoviesBrowse Movies by GenreTop Box OfficeShowtimes & TicketsIn TheatersComing SoonMovie NewsIndia Movie Spotlight
    What's on TV & StreamingTop 250 TV ShowsMost Popular TV ShowsBrowse TV Shows by GenreTV NewsIndia TV Spotlight
    What to WatchLatest TrailersIMDb OriginalsIMDb PicksIMDb Podcasts
    OscarsBest Picture WinnersBest Picture WinnersEmmysAPA Heritage MonthSTARmeter AwardsSan Diego Comic-ConNew York Comic-ConSundance Film FestivalToronto Int'l Film FestivalAwards CentralFestival CentralAll Events
    Born TodayMost Popular CelebsMost Popular CelebsCelebrity News
    Help CenterContributor ZonePolls
For Industry Professionals
  • All
  • Titles
  • TV Episodes
  • Celebs
  • Companies
  • Keywords
  • Advanced Search
Watchlist
Sign In
  • Fully supported
  • English (United States)
    Partially supported
  • Français (Canada)
  • Français (France)
  • Deutsch (Deutschland)
  • हिंदी (भारत)
  • Italiano (Italia)
  • Português (Brasil)
  • Español (España)
  • Español (México)

I Married an Angel

  • 19421942
  • PassedPassed
  • 1h 24m
IMDb RATING
5.7/10
521
YOUR RATING
  • Cast & crew
  • User reviews
  • Trivia
  • IMDbPro
Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald in I Married an Angel (1942)
  • Fantasy
  • Musical
  • Romance
A count who ignores an infatuated secretary thinks he has met his match when an angel from Heaven shows up.A count who ignores an infatuated secretary thinks he has met his match when an angel from Heaven shows up.A count who ignores an infatuated secretary thinks he has met his match when an angel from Heaven shows up.
IMDb RATING
5.7/10
521
YOUR RATING
  • Directors
    • W.S. Van Dyke
    • Roy Del Ruth(uncredited)
  • Writers
    • János Vaszary(play "Angyalt Vettem Felesegul")
    • Richard Rodgers(musical adaptation for play)
    • Lorenz Hart(musical adaptation for play)
  • Stars
    • Jeanette MacDonald
    • Nelson Eddy
    • Edward Everett Horton
Top credits
  • Directors
    • W.S. Van Dyke
    • Roy Del Ruth(uncredited)
  • Writers
    • János Vaszary(play "Angyalt Vettem Felesegul")
    • Richard Rodgers(musical adaptation for play)
    • Lorenz Hart(musical adaptation for play)
  • Stars
    • Jeanette MacDonald
    • Nelson Eddy
    • Edward Everett Horton
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 26User reviews
    • 3Critic reviews
  • See production, box office & company info
  • See more at IMDbPro
  • Photos35

    Binnie Barnes, Janis Carter, Inez Cooper, Nelson Eddy, Jeanette MacDonald, and Mona Maris in I Married an Angel (1942)
    Binnie Barnes and Jeanette MacDonald in I Married an Angel (1942)
    I Married an Angel (1942)
    Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald in I Married an Angel (1942)
    Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald in I Married an Angel (1942)
    Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald in I Married an Angel (1942)
    Binnie Barnes, Edward Everett Horton, Nelson Eddy, Jeanette MacDonald, and Mona Maris in I Married an Angel (1942)
    Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald in I Married an Angel (1942)
    Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald in I Married an Angel (1942)
    Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald in I Married an Angel (1942)
    Patti Brill, Janis Carter, Inez Cooper, Anne Jeffreys, Jeanette MacDonald, Mona Maris, and Marion Rosamond in I Married an Angel (1942)
    Janis Carter, Inez Cooper, and Mona Maris in I Married an Angel (1942)

    Top cast

    Edit
    Jeanette MacDonald
    Jeanette MacDonald
    • Annaas Anna…
    Nelson Eddy
    Nelson Eddy
    • Count Palaffias Count Palaffi
    Edward Everett Horton
    Edward Everett Horton
    • Peteras Peter
    Binnie Barnes
    Binnie Barnes
    • Peggyas Peggy
    Reginald Owen
    Reginald Owen
    • 'Whiskers'as 'Whiskers'
    Douglass Dumbrille
    Douglass Dumbrille
    • Baron Szigethyas Baron Szigethy
    Mona Maris
    Mona Maris
    • Marikaas Marika
    Janis Carter
    Janis Carter
    • Sufias Sufi
    Inez Cooper
    Inez Cooper
    • Irenas Iren
    Leonid Kinskey
    Leonid Kinskey
    • Zinskias Zinski
    Anne Jeffreys
    Anne Jeffreys
    • Pollyas Polly
    Marion Rosamond
    • Dollyas Dolly
    Ruth Adler
    • Knight #1as Knight #1
    • (uncredited)
    Luis Alberni
    Luis Alberni
    • Jean Frederiqueas Jean Frederique
    • (uncredited)
    Rafael Alcayde
    Rafael Alcayde
    • Bertias Berti
    • (uncredited)
    Maude Allen
    • Gossiper #3 at Receptionas Gossiper #3 at Reception
    • (uncredited)
    Sig Arno
    Sig Arno
    • Waiter with Champagneas Waiter with Champagne
    • (uncredited)
    Evelyn Atchinson
    • Marie Antoinetteas Marie Antoinette
    • (uncredited)
    • Directors
      • W.S. Van Dyke
      • Roy Del Ruth(uncredited)
    • Writers
      • János Vaszary(play "Angyalt Vettem Felesegul")
      • Richard Rodgers(musical adaptation for play)
      • Lorenz Hart(musical adaptation for play)
    • All cast & crew
    • See more cast details at IMDbPro

    More like this

    Send Me No Flowers
    7.0
    Send Me No Flowers
    The White Stadium
    7.3
    The White Stadium
    The Crystal Ball
    6.6
    The Crystal Ball
    Duchess of Idaho
    6.3
    Duchess of Idaho
    The White Angel
    6.6
    The White Angel
    Naughty Marietta
    6.5
    Naughty Marietta
    Idiot's Delight
    6.5
    Idiot's Delight
    Four Daughters
    6.9
    Four Daughters
    Lydia
    6.4
    Lydia
    Piccadilly
    7.1
    Piccadilly
    Sweethearts
    6.2
    Sweethearts
    Rose-Marie
    6.7
    Rose-Marie

    Storyline

    Edit
    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. "Whiskers", noticing Anna to be a sweet and beautiful woman, believes she would be the perfect wife for Willie. He insists that Marika (Willie's personal secretary) invite Anna to Willie's costume birthday party - she does so reluctantly for she wants to marry Willie. Marika, knowing Anna is low on cash, offers to help her get a costume. At the party, everyone is dressed elegantly, while Anna is in a simple Angel's outfit. Willie, feeling sorry for her, asks her to dance, but when he sees the guests laughing at them, he makes an excuse and goes upstairs. Upstairs, Willie falls asleep and dreams that an Angel named Brigitta comes to earth to marry him. On their wedding night, Brigitta loses her wings to Willie's delight. He is less delighted when her truthfulness gets him into trouble with the socialites. Willie leaves Brigitta in a rage. Brigitta decides to change, even if it means losing her soul. Willie realizes his mistakes, but it is too late. —Kelly
    • budapest hungary
    • operetta musical
    • secretary
    • angel
    • wing
    • 31 more
    • Plot summary
    • Plot synopsis
    • Taglines
      • The Sky's the Limit in M-G-M's Magnificent Musical Extravaganza!
    • Genres
      • Fantasy
      • Musical
      • Romance
      • Comedy
    • Certificate
      • Passed
    • Parents guide
      • Add content advisory

    Did you know

    Edit
    • Trivia
      Originally planned as a vehicle for Jeanette MacDonald 10 years earlier, but the somewhat racy content put the musical on hold at MGM, until it was a hit on Broadway in 1938.
    • Goofs
      When the count (Nelson Eddy) removes the feathers from his wife's new hat, the feathers are a different type and colour, and attached differently, from the feathers on the hat shown to his wife (Jeanette MacDonald) seconds before.
    • Connections
      Featured in Nelson and Jeanette (1992)
    • Soundtracks
      I Married an Angel
      (1938)

      Music by Richard Rodgers

      Added music by Herbert Stothart

      Lyrics by Lorenz Hart

      Added lyrics by Bob Wright and Chet Forrest

      Played during the opening credits

      Sung by Jeanette MacDonald

      Reprised by Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy often

      Played also as background music

    User reviews26

    Review
    Top review
    6/10
    "Hey Butcher, Hey Baker, Love's Landed a Real Haymaker"
    It was not planned that way, but as it turns out the film adaption of the Rodgers&Hart Broadway musical I Married an Angel turned out to be the last pairing of Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald. Nelson in fact left Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer after this film and bought his own contract out for $250,000.00 according to a recently published book about the pair by Sheryl Rich.

    They are in good voice and the songs of Rodgers&Hart never got a better treatment. Unfortunately the film ran into some censorship problems about celestial creatures doing some very earthly things. Rodgers&Hart were busy on Broadway and couldn't help. Two very big shows for them, Pal Joey and By Jupiter kept them occupied.

    Nelson is a happy carefree Hungarian playboy who's grandfather started the Bank of Budapest. But Nelson would rather spend his time with wine, women, and song and since it's Nelson Eddy, song doesn't take third place to the other two. At his birthday party he's taken by a little known to him employee at the bank in an angel costume. Guess who that is? Feeling a little the worse for wear from the revelry, Nelson takes a little snooze.

    During the dream Jeanette appears to him as a real angel and Nelson is smitten. He asks her to marry him and she agrees. She's without a dishonest bone in her heavenly body.

    Unfortunately her time in heaven has not prepared her to deal with certain earthly hypocrisies. It's one wild celestial ride that Jeanette gives Nelson.

    The title song, I'll Tell the Man in the Street, and Spring is Here are the big hit numbers from the Broadway show and the stars do them well. The satire comes off far better here than it did for Jeanette and Nelson in Bittersweet, but still censorship really crippled some of the best lines from Broadway.

    Binnie Barnes, Reginald Owen, Edward Everett Horton and Douglass Dumbrille give good support to the singing sweethearts. Barnes practically steals the show as the wisecracking earthly friend of MacDonald who sets out to teach her worldly ways.

    I think fans of MacDonald and Eddy and others who do knock this film ought to give it a second look. It's not as bad as some would make it out to be.
    helpful•27
    2
    • bkoganbing
    • Mar 15, 2006

    Details

    Edit
    • Release date
      • July 9, 1942 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Hon var en ängel
    • Filming locations
      • Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios - 10202 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, California, USA
    • Production company
      • Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
    • See more company credits at IMDbPro

    Technical specs

    Edit
    • Runtime
      1 hour 24 minutes
    • Color
      • Black and White
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.37 : 1

    Related news

    Elaine Stritch Dead at 89
    Elaine Stritch Dead at 89
    Jul 17Entertainment Tonight
    California Auditions at a Glance: May 16-June 20
    May 14backstage.com

    Contribute to this page

    Suggest an edit or add missing content
    Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald in I Married an Angel (1942)
    Top Gap
    By what name was I Married an Angel (1942) officially released in Canada in English?
    Answer
    • See more gaps
    • Learn more about contributing
    Edit page

    More to explore

    View list
    List
    The 10 Most Anticipated Marvel and DC Movies
    See the full list
    Image caption not available
    2:14
    The Most Anticipated Movies and Shows to Watch in May
    Watch the video

    Recently viewed

    Please enable browser cookies to use this feature. Learn more.
    Get the IMDb App
    • Get the IMDb App
    • Help
    • Site Index
    • IMDbPro
    • Box Office Mojo
    • IMDb Developer
    • Press Room
    • Advertising
    • Jobs
    • Conditions of Use
    • Privacy Policy
    • Interest-Based Ads

    © 1990-2022 by IMDb.com, Inc.