The Smiling Lieutenant

Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1931. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1931 pre-Code film musical, showing Maurice Chevalier and Charles Ruggles saluting a smiling Claudette Colbert.

Basd on Hans Müller-Einigen's 1905 novel "Nux, der Prinzgemahl," previously adapted as an operetta by Leopold Jacobson and Felix Dörmann in 1907. A lieutenant is obligated to marry a socially inept princess after she mistakenly believes he has winked at her instead of his lover. The first of three films directed by Ernst Lubitsch to star Miriam Hopkins. Considered lost for many years until a print was discovered in Denmark in the 1990s.

Set in Vienna.

8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus.

[Book #171388]