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The Merry Widow: Directed by Ernst Lubitsch. With Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald, Edward Everett Horton, Marcel Vallée. When a small kingdom's main taxpayer leaves for Paris, its king dispatches a dashing count to win back her allegiance.
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- Comedy, Musical, Romance
- Ernst Lubitsch
- 1934-11-02
The Merry Widow is a 1934 film adaptation of the 1905 operetta of the same name by Franz Lehár. The film was directed and produced by Ernst Lubitsch starring Maurice Chevalier and Jeanette MacDonald with a supporting cast featuring Edward Everett Horton, Una Merkel, Sterling Holloway, Donald Meek, Jason Robards Sr. and Akim Tamiroff.
Wittily directed by Ernst Lubitsch, The Merry Widow is a rich Viennese pastry of a movie, perfectly cast with a sparkling Jeanette MacDonald as the widow and a roguish Maurice Chevalier as the playboy prince. It was MacDonald and Chevalier's fourth and final film together, and their only one at MGM.
- Ernst Lubitsch, Joseph Newman
- Maurice Chevalier
The Merry Widow (1934) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
The Merry Widow (German: Die lustige Witwe [diː ˈlʊstɪɡə ˈvɪtvə]) is an operetta by the Austro-Hungarian composer Franz Lehár. The librettists , Viktor Léon and Leo Stein , based the story – concerning a rich widow, and her countrymen's attempt to keep her money in the principality by finding her the right husband – on an 1861 ...
Jun 20, 2013 · The Warner Archive Collection has restored Ernst Lubitsch’s “Merry Widow” (1934), starring Jeanette MacDonald and Maurice Chevalier, the last in a series of Lubitsch musicals.
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The Merry Widow is a 1934 film adaptation of the operetta of the same name by Franz Lehár. It was directed and produced by Ernst Lubitsch and starred Maurice Chevalier and Jeanette MacDonald. A French-language version was produced at the same time and released in France the same year as La Veuve joyeuse.
