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The Smiling Lieutenant

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

1931 · NR · 1h 29m

Directed by Ernst Lubitsch

6.8

TMDB audience score
72 votes, out of 10

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Synopsis

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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Cast

  • Maurice Chevalier
    Lt. Nikolaus 'Niki' von Preyn

  • Claudette Colbert
    Franzi

  • Miriam Hopkins
    Princess Anna

  • Charles Ruggles
    Max

  • George Barbier
    King Adolf XV

  • Hugh O'Connell
    Niki's Orderly

  • Maude Allen
    Lady in Waiting (uncredited)

  • Granville Bates
    Bill Collector (uncredited)

  • Harry C. Bradley
    Count Von Holden (uncredited)

  • Carrie Daumery
    Lady in Waiting (uncredited)

  • Ludwig Heinsich
    Man (uncredited)

  • Cornelius MacSunday
    Emperor Franz Josef (uncredited)

  • Elizabeth Patterson
    Baroness Von Schwedel (uncredited)

  • Janet Reade
    Lily (uncredited)

  • Werner Saxtorph
    Joseph (uncredited)

  • Karl Stall
    Master of Ceremonies (uncredited)

  • Robert Strange
    Colonel Rockoff (uncredited)

  • Charles Wagenheim
    Arresting Officer (uncredited)