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.
Recently viewed. 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.
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- Comedy, Musical, Romance
- Ernst Lubitsch
- 1931-08-01
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.
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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.
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. He's crazy about her and is smiling at her while on duty in the street.
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).
