Rotten
The drought is in the disappointing Oscar Straus score of four numbers.
Variety Staff, Variety
The Smiling Lieutenant
Maurice Chevalier laughing and loving again in Ernst Lubitsch's sparkling cocktail of romantic merriment
1931 · 1h 29m · Passed
Comedy, Romance
Directed by
Ernst Lubitsch
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The Smiling Lieutenant
Overview
An amorous lieutenant is forced to marry a socially awkward princess, though he tries to keep his violin-playing girlfriend on the side.
Director and cast
- Ernst Lubitsch Director
- Maurice Chevalier as Lt. Nikolaus 'Niki' von Preyn
- Claudette Colbert as Franzi
- Miriam Hopkins as Princess Anna
- Charles Ruggles as Max (as Charlie Ruggles)
- George Barbier as King Adolf XV
- Hugh O'Connell as Niki's Orderly
- Maude Allen as Lady in Waiting (uncredited)
- Granville Bates as Bill Collector (uncredited)
- Harry C. Bradley as Count Von Holden (uncredited)
- Carrie Daumery Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
88%
Tomatometer
Fresh
It's quintessential Lubitsch in the way it suggests sexual dalliance with the brightening or darkening of a gas lamp outside a bedroom.
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
Fresh
Wit and melody swing through Maurice Chevalier's latest picture.
Mordaunt Hall, New York Times
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