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The Merry Widow is a 1934 film adaptation of the 1905 operetta of the same name by Franz Lehár. The film was directed and produced by Ernst Lubitsch starring Maurice Chevalier and Jeanette MacDonald with a supporting cast featuring Edward Everett Horton , Una Merkel , Sterling Holloway , Donald Meek , Jason Robards Sr. and Akim Tamiroff .
- $1,605,000
- Irving Thalberg, Ernst Lubitsch
The Merry Widow: Directed by Ernst Lubitsch. With Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald, Edward Everett Horton, Marcel Vallée. When a small kingdom's main taxpayer leaves for Paris, its king dispatches a dashing count to win back her allegiance.
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The third film version of Franz Lehar's 1907 operetta, The Merry Widow (1934) was the first talking version, and thus the first to take full advantage of Lehar's glorious music. Cedric Gibbons and Fredric Hope won the film's only Oscar® for their sumptuous set design.
- Ernst Lubitsch, Joseph Newman
- Maurice Chevalier
Jul 25, 2022 · The Merry Widow is a 1934 black and white movie film which has been colorised, upscaled to 4K, and frames per second boosted to 60 FPS in 2022 using Artificial...
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Popular reviews. “The Merry Widow” marks the end of director Ernst Lubitsch’s pre-code run of naughty manners musicals. Hollywood censors were knocking at the door, but Lubitsch wasn’t going out without one last, spectacular (and sex-filled) waltz. The most expensive film of its era, “Widow” sees perpetual pre-code Playboy Maurice ...
The small kingdom of Marshovia has a little problem. The main taxpayer, the wealthy widow Sonia (who pays 52% of the taxes) has left for Paris. So Count Danilo is sent to Paris, to stop her from getting married to a stranger, so that the danger of removing the money is averted. But this is not as easy as the ambassador in Paris has planned.
