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The Smiling Lieutenant (1931)

Maurice Chevalier laughing and loving again in Ernst Lubitsch's sparkling cocktail of romantic merriment

6.8(69)1h 29mAugust 1, 1931

Ernst Lubitsch

Director

Samson Raphaelson, Ernest Vajda, Ernst Lubitsch

Writers

Rate

Diary

Overview

An amorous lieutenant is forced to marry a socially awkward princess, though he tries to keep his violin-playing girlfriend on the side.

Cast

Maurice Chevalier

Lt. Nikolaus 'Niki' von Preyn

Claudette Colbert

Franzi

Miriam Hopkins

Princess Anna

Charles Ruggles

Max

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George Barbier

King Adolf XV

Hugh O'Connell

Niki's Orderly

Granville Bates

Bill Collector (uncredited)

Harry C. Bradley

Count Von Holden (uncredited)

Carrie Daumery

Lady in Waiting (uncredited)

Elizabeth Patterson

Baroness Von Schwedel (uncredited)

Robert Strange

Colonel Rockoff (uncredited)

Charles Wagenheim

Arresting Officer (uncredited)

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Status: Released
Original language: English
Release date: August 1, 1931
Production: Paramount Pictures
Country: United States of America

Keywords

romantic rivalrypre-codewink

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