The Smiling Lieutenant 1931 All ages
The Smiling Lieutenant 1931 All ages
35MM, BLACK AND WHITE, MONO, 88 MINUTES, USA, ENGLISH / DIRECTOR: ERNST LUBITSCH / SCRIPT: ERNST VAJDA, SAMSON RAPHAELSON / BASED ON THE NOVEL BY HANS MÜLLER / CINEMATOGRAPHER: GEORGE J FOLSEY / EDITOR: MERRILL G WHITE / ART DIRECTOR: HANS DREIER / CAST: MAURICE CHEVALIER, MIRIAM HOPKINS, CLAUDETTE COLBERT / PRODUCTION CO: PARAMOUNT PICTURES / PRINT SOURCE: UCLA FILM & TELEVISION ARCHIVE / PRESERVED BY THE UCLA FILM AND TELEVISION ARCHIVE WITH FUNDING FROM THE STANFORD THEATRE FOUNDATION / RIGHTS: UNIVERSAL PICTURES
‘In [Ernst] Lubitsch's third sound film (and third musical in a row), Maurice Chevalier plays the cheerful but bemused hero, an Austrian officer who vies for the affections of two women. An Oscar nominee for Best Picture, this Viennese romantic triangle was the most successful example of Paramount's effort to create a "Hollywood on the Hudson" in Astoria.’ Mimi Brody, UCLA Film and Television Archive
Contact: Sunday 20 Sept 11.00am / Cinema A
Phone: Production still from The Smiling Lieutenant 1931
Image courtesy: Universal Pictures
