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All Audience. Verified Audience. Variety Staff Variety. TOP CRITIC. The drought is in the disappointing Oscar Straus score of four numbers. Full Review | Jul 6, 2010. Fernando F. Croce...
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“We are not afraid to skirmish in the dark…”One of Niki’s friends wants his permission to cheat on his wife. “You’re crazy about a girl and you don’t know what to do.” “Right.” “Then don’t do it!”When invited to stay for breakfast after a late night make out session, Franzi replies, “First tea, then dinner, and then maybe… maybe breakfast.” She does not make it to tea or dinner first.There are more euphemisms for sex in this movie than you could throw a euphemistic shoe at.Movie nerds who buy into the ‘Claudette Colbert was a secret lesbian’ theory will find plenty of moments that certainly play with the audience’s, uh, expectations:My wife is a nice, wonderful woman. She is insanely cheerful, with an upbeat attitude that often throws people off. I’ve seen my wife legitimately angry in possibly three, maybe four times in the five years we’ve been together. I mention this because my wife was livid after the end of The Smiling Lieutenant. From the woman who fawned over Trouble i...
Not to be a complete dick, but as someone who played the violin for a number of years, uh, yeah, Colbert clearly isn’t playing it. It didn’t take me out of the movie or anything, just something fun...
This film is available in the Eclipse box set of Lubitsch Musicals. Also included is Monte Carlo, The Love Parade, and One Hour With You. It’s for sale over at Amazon.The Smiling Lieutenant. 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 . It was written by Samson Raphaelson and Ernest Vajda from the operetta Ein Walzertraum by Oscar Straus, with libretto by ...
The results - THE SMILING LIEUTENANT. Director Ernst Lubitsch created a triumph in this scintillating pre-Code film which is as light and airy now as it was when first released. Replete with wonderful performances & an effervescent script, it is still sophisticated and remarkably frank.
Jan 30, 2021 · Watching “The Smiling Lieutenant” is like being present for the birth of the movie musical. Never one to allow for too solemn an occasion, director Ernst Lubitsch uses the moment to crack a ‘does the curtain match the drapes’ joke. “Lieutenant” amounts to one of the most joyfully irreverent ‘process pictures’ ever. In 1931, Lubitsch and other directors were still working over ...
A scandal breaks out when the lieutenant's smile at his beloved accidentally lands on the dowdy princess (Miriam Hopkins), whose offence quickly melts as she learns of this odd thing called flirting. Arranged wedding, ceremonial bedchamber (cf. Rossellini's La Prise de Pouvoir par Louis XIV), unconsummated honeymoon. "Married people don't wink?"
Jul 8, 2023 · Tim Brayton’s review published on Letterboxd: It's not Lubitsch's "best" movie - it's not even Lubitsch's best musical about a Germanic kingdom starring Maurice Chevalier - but I would be tempted to call it the central example of what "a Lubitsch movie" means to me.
