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Director:
Ernst Lubitsch
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Writers:
Lothar Schmidt (play)
Samson Raphaelson (writer)
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Release Date:
23 March 1932 (USA) more
Genre:
Comedy | Musical | Romance more
Tagline:
So big! So entertaining! So much fun! more
Plot:
Andre and Colette Bertier are happily married. When Colette introduces her husband to her flirtatious best friend... more | add synopsis
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Awards:
Nominated for Oscar. more
NewsDesk:
(2 articles)
The Merry Widow d: Ernst Lubitsch
 (From Alternative Film Guide. 14 April 2009, 10:45 PM, PDT)
"Kilometre Zero," "Lubitsch Musicals"
 (From IFC. 4 March 2008, 4:00 AM, PST)
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Cast

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Maurice Chevalier ... Dr. Andre Bertier

Jeanette MacDonald ... Colette Bertier
Genevieve Tobin ... Mitzi Olivier
Charles Ruggles ... Adolph
Roland Young ... Professor Olivier
Josephine Dunn ... Mademoiselle Martel
Richard Carle ... Henri Dornier - Private Detective
Barbara Leonard ... Mitzi's Maid
George Barbier ... Police Commissioner
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Runtime:
80 min | Hong Kong:84 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Black and White (tinted)
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono
Certification:
USA:Passed
Company:
Paramount Pictures more

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
A French-language version _Une heure près de toi_, ("One More Hour With You") was filmed simultaneously. Maurice Chevalier and Jeanette MacDonald (who spoke French fluently) played the same parts as in the English version, and Lili Damita replaced Genevieve Tobin. more
Quotes:
Professor Olivier: When I married her, she was a brunette. Now you can't believe anything she says. more
Movie Connections:
Remake of So This Is Paris (1926) more
Soundtrack:
We Will Always Be Sweetheharts more

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4 out of 5 people found the following comment useful.
Seduction, 23 May 2008
Author: tedg (tedg@FilmsFolded.com) from Virginia Beach

Sometimes these old films are useful if only because they are a fossilized record of the evolution of certain film techniques.

Here it is the technique of the main character looking directly at and addressing the audience outside of the story. As this really is expertly put together, there are many discrete steps of reality woven into this. There's the standard overlay of play and song that musicals had for decades. But there's also a couple other modes: one in which the characters speak their lines in rhyme. And a more subtle level where the tone is more deliberately artificial, play-like.

Incidentally, I have mentioned elsewhere that the current reputation of Paris as a romantic place was largely manufactured by the US film industry using hidden subsidies. The idea was attract US tourist dollars as part of the Marshall plan. Before the war, it was a place of sex without romance. Romance was deliberately out of the equation. You can see that here. The one hour is all that is required for the liaison that matters.

Ted's Evaluation -- 2 of 3: Has some interesting elements.

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