Released - August, 1932 

Directed By - Rouben Mamoulian

Starring – Maurice Chevalier (Baron Maurice Courtelin), Jeanette MacDonald (Princess Jeanette), Charles Ruggles (Viscount Gilbert de Vareze), Charles Butterworth (Count de Savignac), Myrna Loy (Countess Valentine).

Description – A romantic musical that has Maurice Chevalier playing a tailor who is owed a lot of money by a penniless nobleman. To buy some time for his debt, Viscount de Vareze allows the tailor to move into his estate and decides to pass him off as a baron. The new baron meets and falls in love with the beautiful Princess Jeanette. Somewhat suspicious of the baron the princess is a little hesitant. Enjoy the fun and the music as suspicion gives in to love.

NOTABLE: In 1990 this movie was chosed for preservation in the United States National Film Registry. This film featured the classic Rodgers and Hart songs “Isn’t It Romantic?,” “Lover,” “Mimi,” and “Love Me Tonight”. A little wardrobe jealousy emerged as Jeanette MacDonald was jealous of how a white empire-styled dress looked on Myrna Loy for a party sequence and insisted on wearing the dress herself. This was not a problem for Loy as she, with a friends help, put together the black lace outfit she steals the scene in.

Love Me Tonight

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Released - March, 1932 

Directed By - Ernst Lubitsch

Starring – Maurice Chevalier (Dr. Andre Bertier), Jeanette MacDonald (Colette Bertier), Genevieve Tobin (Mitzi Olivier), Charles Ruggles (Adolph), Roland Young (Professor Olivier).

Description – When you are the perfect couple and as happily married as Dr. Andre Bertier and his wife Colette, what could possibly go wrong?

Well, start with an introduction of the Doctor to the very attractive, flirtatious, and persistent Mitzi Olivier whose husband wants to divorce her, and the unexpected attraction of Colette to another man and lets see what happens.

NOTABLE: This picture was nominated for Best Picture Oscar.

The title song for this film was later used as the theme song for Eddie Cantor’s radio show.

Included in Eclipse Series 8 Lubitsch Musicals 

Eclipse Series 8 – Lubitsch Musicals (The Love Parade / The Smiling Lieutenant / One Hour with You / Monte Carlo) (Criterion Collection)

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Released – August, 1930 

Directed By - Ernst Lubitsch

Starring – Jack Buchanan (Count Rudolph Falliere/Rudy the hairdresser), Jeanette MacDonald (Countess Helene Mara), Claud Allister (Prince Otto Von Seibenheim), Zasu Pitts (Bertha).

Description – Down to her last 10,000 francs, Countess Helene Mara has fled to Monte Carlo after leaving her fiance at the alter. 

Posing as a hairdresser, Count Rudolph Falliere is hired by the Countess and they begin to fall in love.  Countess Mara, believing Count Falliere a commoner, believes they have no future as she is prohibited as royalty to marry a commoner.

With her jilted fiance on his way to Monte Carlo, will the Countess find out about her hairdresser actually being royality himself in time for them to marry?

NOTABLE: This film was hailed by critics as a masterpiece of the newly emerging movie genre the musical.

Introduced in this film, the song ‘Beyond The Blue Horizon’ became an immediate hit and was known as the theme song for Jeanette MacDonald.

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January, 1930 - With a combination of his Parisian accent, charming demeanor, and mischievous smile, Maurice Chevalier captured the hearts of American movie-goers. His popularity gaining him two Best Actor Academy Award nominations for the films The Love Parade (1929) and The Big Pond (1930). 

With his trademark straw hat and cane, he became one of the most loved musical comedy stars of his time. Signing a contract with Paramount Pictures in 1928, Chevalier played his first American movie role in Innocents of Paris.

Despite an apparent lack of interest by the general public regarding musicals in the early 1930s, the Paramount musical classic One Hour With You starring Chevalier opposite Jeanette MacDonald became a box-office smash. This proved to be one of Hollywood's most instrumental films in it's effort to help make musicals popular with the public again.