The Smiling Lieutenant (1931)

NR08/01/1931Comedy, Romance1h 29m
  • User
    Score

Maurice Chevalier laughing and loving again in Ernst Lubitsch's sparkling cocktail of romantic merriment

Overview

An amorous lieutenant is forced to marry a socially awkward princess, though he tries to keep his violin-playing girlfriend on the side.

Top Billed Cast

  1. Cast 1

    Maurice Chevalier

    Lt. Nikolaus 'Niki' von Preyn

  2. Cast 1

    Claudette Colbert

    Franzi

  3. Cast 1

    Miriam Hopkins

    Princess Anna

  4. Cast 1

    Charles Ruggles

    Max

  5. Cast 1

    George Barbier

    King Adolf XV

  6. Cast 1

    Hugh O'Connell

    Niki's Orderly

  7. Maude Allen

    Lady in Waiting (uncredited)

  8. Cast 1

    Granville Bates

    Bill Collector (uncredited)

  9. Cast 1

    Harry C. Bradley

    Count Von Holden (uncredited)

How many films are you ever going to watch that have songs rhyming "liver" with "quiver" - or that quote Emperor Napoleon's last words before entering exile on Elbe - "so long!"? "Niki" (Maurice Chevalier) is a happy-go-lucky military officer in love with "Franzi" (Claudette Colbert) and all is set fair with their lives until a state visit to the Emperor by the princess "Anna" (Miriam Hopkins) lands him in hot water. He smiled at her as the carriage carrying her and her father, the King (George Barbier) passed by. His Majesty is outraged at such a diabolical liberty and si "Niki" is duly summo...

Status Released

Original LanguageEnglish 

Budget-

Revenue -

keywords