6/13/2023 0 Comments The smiling lieutenant torrentThis minor film scored big with the Depression-era audience. ![]() The charming lightweight musical, with only five numbers, is more a romantic comedy loaded with Lubitsch’s trademark sexual touches. ![]() Ernst Lubitsch (“The Love Parade”/Design for Living”/”The Shop Around the Corner”) shot it at Paramount’s Astoria, Long Island, studios. Niki), Claudette Colbert (Franzi), Miriam Hopkins (Princess Anna), Charles Ruggles (Max), George Barbier (King Adolf XV), Hugh O’Connell (Orderly), Janet Reade (Lily), Con MacSunday (Emperor) Runtime: 88 MPAA Rating: NR producer: Ernst Lubitsch Criterion Collection: Eclipse Series 8 1931)Īdapted from the 1907 operetta The Waltz Dream by Leopold Jacobson and Felix Doermann with music by Austrian composer Oscar Straus and Hans Muller’s novel “Nux der Prinzgemahl”, which was made into a silent German film also titled The Waltz Dream in 1926. ![]() ![]() White music: Oscar Straus cast: Maurice Chevalier (Lt. SMILING LIEUTENANT, THE (director/writer: Ernst Lubitsch screenwriters: Henri Bataille, Samson Raphaelson, Ernest Vajda/from “The Waltz Dream” by Oscar Straus and Hans Muller’s novel, “Nux der Prinzgemahl” cinematographer: George J.
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