Movie
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.
Details
- Release date
- 1931-08-01
- Runtime
- 89 min
- Genres
- Comedy, Romance
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Paramount Pictures
- Country
- United States of America
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Maurice Chevalier as Lt. Nikolaus 'Niki' von Preyn
- Claudette Colbert as Franzi
- Miriam Hopkins as Princess Anna
- Charles Ruggles as Max
- 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 as Lady in Waiting (uncredited)
- Ludwig Heinsich as Man (uncredited)
- Cornelius MacSunday as Emperor Franz Josef (uncredited)
Crew
- Ernst Lubitsch - Director
- Ernst Lubitsch - Writer
- Ernest Vajda - Screenplay
- Samson Raphaelson - Screenplay
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