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The Smiling Lieutenant is a 1931 American pre-Code musical comedy film directed by Ernst Lubitsch, starring Maurice Chevalier, Claudette Colbert and Miriam Hopkins, and released by Paramount Pictures.
The Smiling Lieutenant: Directed by Ernst Lubitsch. With Maurice Chevalier, Claudette Colbert, Miriam Hopkins, Charles Ruggles. An amorous lieutenant is forced to marry a socially awkward princess, though he tries to keep his violin-playing girlfriend on the side.
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- Comedy, Musical, Romance
- Ernst Lubitsch
- 1931-08-01
A Viennese lieutenant (Maurice Chevalier) falls for a jazz singer (Claudette Colbert) and a princess (Miriam Hopkins) in this 1931 film by the master of wit and elegance. The Criterion Collection offers a restoration of this classic Lubitsch touch, with cast and crew information, film notes, and more.
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A romantic farce about a young lieutenant who accidentally marries a princess instead of his true love. Based on an operetta and a novel, directed by Ernst Lubitsch and starring Maurice Chevalier and Claudette Colbert.
- Ernst Lubitsch
- Maurice Chevalier
Nominated for an Academy Award as best picture, this musical, set in 19th-century Vienna, starred Chevalier, Claudette Colbert, and Miriam Hopkins. Among the contributors to the screenplay was Samson Raphaelson, who would collaborate frequently with Lubitsch throughout the director’s.
The Smiling Lieutenant is a 1931 American musical comedy movie directed by Ernst Lubitsch and was based on the 1905 novel Nux, der Prinzgemahl by Hans Müller-Einigen and was nominated for an Academy Award in 1932.
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The Smiling Lieutenant ★★ ½ 1931 Flirting at the wrong time/wrong place can get a guy into big trouble. Niki (Chevalier), an officer with Vienna's Royal Guards, is romancing violinist Franzi (Colbert).
