Stories of Standards—Lover Share Tune in to Stories of Standards on weekday mornings at 7:50 and 8:50 am to hear our favorite versions of this song as presented by Rodney Franks. Stories of Standards is sponsored by ListenUp. Jeanette MacDonald introduced the song “Lover” was introduced by Jeanette MacDonald in the 1932 film “Love Me Tonight,” in which she played a princess who falls in love with a tailor (Maurice Chevalier). The film also introduced “Isn’t It Romantic” and “Mimi”, Chevalier’s signature song in later years. In this film, Rodgers and Hart originated a method they called “rhythm dialogue,” in which dialogue was spoken with a musical background. Rodgers later explained that while interpretive innovations were all right once a song was established, he was concerned lest excessive stylization obscure both the melody and lyrics when a song was new and not yet established.