Jack Buchanan
Count Rudolph Falliere a.k.a. Rudy the hairdresser
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Monte Carlo is a 1930 American pre-Code musical comedy film, directed by Ernst Lubitsch. It co-stars Jack Buchanan as a French Count Rudolph Falliere masquerading as a hairdresser and Jeanette MacDonald as Countess Helene Mara.
Monte Carlo: Directed by Ernst Lubitsch. With Jack Buchanan, Jeanette MacDonald, Claud Allister, Zasu Pitts. A countess flees to Monte Carlo on the day of her wedding, where she is courted by a count posing as a hairdresser.
- (1.4K)
- Comedy, Musical, Romance
- Ernst Lubitsch
- 1930-08-27
Monte Carlo. Jeanette MacDonald's independent-minded countess leaves her foppish prince fiancé at the altar, and whisks herself away to the Riviera. There, she strikes the fancy of the sly Count Rudolph (theater veteran Jack Buchanan), who poses as a hairdresser to get into her boudoir.
- Count Rudolph Farriere
1930's Monte Carlo must do without Chevalier, replacing him with Jack Buchanan, a refined Englishman with plenty of talent but little in the way of sex appeal. Buchanan is now known almost exclusively through his performance in Vincente Minnelli's The Band Wagon, over twenty years later.
- Ernst Lubitsch
- Jack Buchanan
When Countess Helene Mara (Jeanette MacDonald) ditches her fiancee Duke Otto von Liebenheim (Claud Allister) on their wedding day, she hops a train and makes her way to Monte Carlo, where she finds it hard to avoid a new suitor, Count Randolph Farriere (Jack Buchanan).
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- Paramount
- Ernst Lubitsch
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MONTE CARLO (Paramount, 1930), directed by Ernst Lubitsch, starring Jack Buchanan and Jeanette MacDonald, is a witty, sophisticated musical comedy with continental charm, which at times resembles some of the latter films starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers for RKO Radio.
