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The Smiling Lieutenant is a 1931 American pre-Code musical comedy film directed by Ernst Lubitsch, starring Maurice Chevalier, Claudette Colbert and Miriam Hopkins, and released by Paramount Pictures.
The Smiling Lieutenant: Directed by Ernst Lubitsch. With Maurice Chevalier, Claudette Colbert, Miriam Hopkins, Charles Ruggles. An amorous lieutenant is forced to marry a socially awkward princess, though he tries to keep his violin-playing girlfriend on the side.
Summoned to account for the crime of smiling at the visiting princess (Miriam Hopkins), Viennese soldier Niki (Maurice Chevalier) rolls the dice with her father the king (George Barbier), in Ernst Lubitsch's The Smiling Lieutenant, 1931.
Maurice Chevalier's randy Viennese lieutenant is enamored of Claudette Colbert's freethinking, all-girl-orchestra-leading cutie. Yet complications ensue when the sexually repressed princess of the fictional kingdom of Flausenthurm, played by newcomer Miriam Hopkins, sets her sights on him.
A simple wink, intended by Austrian palace guard Lt. Nikolaus von Preyn (Maurice Chevalier) for girlfriend, Franzi (Claudette Colbert), is accidentally intercepted -- and...
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The Smiling Lieutenant is a 1931 American musical comedy movie directed by Ernst Lubitsch and was based on the 1905 novel Nux, der Prinzgemahl by Hans Müller-Einigen and was nominated for an Academy Award in 1932.
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Dec 18, 2011 · As with just about any rom-com one could cite, The Smiling Lieutenant’s plot hinges on a crucial twist of fate, in this case an ill-timed wink exchanged between Lieutenant Niki and his new lover and soon-to-be paramour Franzi.
Chevalier is up to his usual tricks as the permanently randy Lieutenant of the title, whose sprightly love affair with Claudette Colbert winds up with him marrying Miriam Hopkins's dowdy rural princess after accidentally smiling at her during a military parade.
When Ernst Lubitsch made Smiling Lieutenant, musical romantic comedy, starring Maurice Chevalier, Claudette Colbert, and Miriam Hopkins at Paramount, it became the studio’s most commercially popular picture of 1931.
