Question for Romantic Cinema and Film specialist wrt "The Merry Widow"?

When I was a young boy (30 years ago) my parents would get those old "reel to reel" films from the Chicago Public Library. My parents would gather family and friends and watch beautiful movies to teach their children about the beauty of life and love, but perhaps also to ease their pain as post WWII refugees emerging from the flames of genocide under the soviet and nazi regimes that destroyed their young lives in Lithuania and threw them into the flames of war such as the bombing of Dresden and other horrors of that terrible episode of history. One movie that left a great effect upon our young lives was something like the "Merry Widow", but I don't think it is the 1934 version with Maurice Chevalier and Jeanette MacDonald, although in my child memory the film was very similar (black and white, romantic innocence, the theme of the widow looking for happiness). Does anyone know if there is another 30's-40's version of this movie or similar ? I remember two vivid scenes. In the beginning there is a scene of children dancing around a May pole, a spring festival. The widow seems to be remembering her lost love - at the end of the film, the "merry" widow sits under an apple tree in full spring bloom and as she dies (or dreams) among the falling white blossoms, her lost lover (husband) takes her by the hand and she is once again young and beautiful as she enters into eternal happiness. It is an incredibly beautiful film, it made me believe in the beauty of life, pure love and idealism despite the painful moments and wounds of human life. I would like to use the film in teaching of my Anthropology courses and in helping young people to ponder deeply and to try to believe in the beauty of life and love. Does anyone know what this film could be ? Is it another version of "The Merry Widow" or do these scenes that I described exist in the 1934 version ? Thank you for your help and may we all be filled with the joy of human and divine love in this blessed season. Thank you. Father Pierre