BALALAIKA

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• Release Year: 1939
• Genre: Musical, Romance
• Plot: LOVE AND MUSIC DURING THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION; ; Nelson Eddy (Rose Marie) stars as a Czarist prince who falls in love with a café singer in the days just before the Russian Revolution in this gorgeous period musical. Prince Peter (Eddy) masquerades as a poor worker to woo Lydia Marakov (Ilona Massey) and secretly arranges for her to audition at the Imperial opera, and the two fall in love. Their romance is shattered, however, when Lydia discovers Peter’s true identity when he leads his Cossacks into town to break up a demonstration that ends with tragic consequences. Only after the war, when the two have become émigrés in Paris, are they reunited. Featuring wonderful Russian music and songs and sterling performances by the cast, Balalaika is an enduring treasure.
• Cast: Nelson Eddy, Ilona Massey, Charles Ruggles, Frank Morgan, Lionel Atwill, C. Aubrey Smith, Joyce Compton, Dalies Frantz, Walter Woolf King, Phillip Terry, Frederick Worlock, Abner Biberman, Arthur W. Cernitz, Roland Varno, George Tobias, Paul Sutton, Willy Castello, Paul Irving, Mildred Shay, Alma Kruger, Zeffie Tilbury, Demetrius Alexis, Dorothy Ates, Douglas Beattie, John Bleifer, Charles Brokaw, Rand Brooks, Maurice Cass, Feodor Chaliapin Jr., Irene Coleman, Alexis Davidoff, Al Ferguson, Jack George, Boris Glagolin, John Gubbins, Eddie Hart, John Holland, Charles Judels, Ilia Khmara, Harry Lamont, David Laughlin, Jack Luden, Michael Mark, Art Miles, Paul Newlan, Sigurd Nilssen, Ed Payson, Irra Petina, Lee Phelps, Rex Post, Frank Puglia, Constantine Romanoff, William Royle, Hector Sarno, Earl Seaman, Harry Semels, Marla Shelton, Florence Shirley, Robert R. Stephenson, Kay Sutton, Dirk Thane, Andrew Tombes, Monte Vandergrift, Ellinor Vanderveer, Ernö Verebes, George Volk, Marjorie Woodworth, Harry Worth, Reinhold Schünzel, Charles Bennett, Jacques Deval
• Director: Reinhold Schünzel
• Runtime: 1:42
• Company: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.
• Media Format: Movie