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That Lady in Ermine is a 1948 American Technicolor musical film directed by Ernst Lubitsch. The screenplay by Samson Raphaelson is based on the 1919 operetta Die Frau im Hermelin by Rudolph Schanzer and Ernst Welisch.
That Lady in Ermine: Directed by Ernst Lubitsch, Otto Preminger. With Betty Grable, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Cesar Romero, Walter Abel. That Lady in Ermine tells two parallel stories, both taking place in the small Mittel-European duchy of Bergamo, with one set in the 19th century and the other in the 16th.
- (930)
- Comedy, Fantasy, Musical
- Ernst Lubitsch, Otto Preminger
- 1948-09-25
The centerpiece of these is the titular lady in ermine, the Countess Francesca (also Grable) who, three hundred years before the events of the film, showed up to the tent of the commander of another army led by The Duke (also Fairbanks) dressed only in a white ermine coat and barefoot (as she is presented in the painting).
In this musical comedy, Hungarian soldiers invade Countess Angelina's (Betty Grable) castle, and her husband immediately escapes, leaving her to fend off the advances of Col. Teglas (Douglas ...
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- Dennis Schwartz
- Musical
- Ernst Lubitsch, Otto Preminger
Circa 1861, Angelina, ruling countess of an Italian principality, is at a loss when invaded by a Hungarian army. Her lookalike ancestress Francesca, who saved a similar situation 300 years before, comes to life from a portrait to help her descendant.
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- 20th Century Fox
- Ernst Lubitsch
That Lady in Ermine is a 1948 American musical film directed by Ernst Lubitsch. The screenplay by Samson Raphaelson is based on the operetta Die Frau im Hermelin by Rudolph Schanzer and Ernst Welisch.
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Overview. Circa 1861, Angelina, ruling countess of an Italian principality, is at a loss when invaded by a Hungarian army. Her lookalike ancestress Francesca, who saved a similar situation 300 years before, comes to life from a portrait to help her descendant.
