Maurice Chevalier
Lt. Nikolaus "Niki" von Preyn
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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.
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.
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.
The Smiling Lieutenant. (1931) Directed by Ernst Lubitsch. In Lubitsch’s third sound feature, Maurice Chevalier plays a cheerful but bemused hero Austrian officer who has the mixed good fortune to win the affections of two equally beautiful women: a warm-hearted violinist (Colbert) and a haughty princess (Hopkins).
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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Trivia. FAQ. IMDbPro. All topics. Plot. The Smiling Lieutenant. Summaries. An amorous lieutenant is forced to marry a socially awkward princess, though he tries to keep his violin-playing girlfriend on the side. Lieutenant Niki of the Austrian royal guard has a new girlfriend, Franzi.
