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, 1931 

Directed By - Ernst Lubitsch

Starring – Maurice Chevalier (Lt. Nikolaus ‘Niki’ Preyn), Claudette Colbert (Franzi), Miriam Hopkins (Princess Anna), Charles Ruggles (Max).

Description – The love triangle has been around forever; this is the story of the Princess who loves the soldier, who loves another woman. Lt. Preyn, in a pre-parade formation, uses the opportunity to send a wink and a smile to his girlfriend Franzi without realizing that a visiting Princess believes the wink and smile are for her.

In order to avoid an international incident, Lt. Preyn is forced to marry the Princess. After the forced marriage, Lt. Preyn (who finds the Princess boring) continually slips away to see Franzi who decides to confront the Princess only to find her deeply in love with her boyfriend.

In an emotional change of heart, Franzi decides to help save the marriage by turning the Princess into an irresistible ‘new princess’.

NOTABLE: This film received an Oscar nomination for Best Picture.

Included in Eclipse Series 8 – Lubitsch Musicals 

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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.