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The Smiling Lieutenant

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

6.8(72)19311h 29m2

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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Released
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Language
French
  • romantic rivalry
  • pre-code
  • wink

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  • United StatesUS

    • PremiereNRNew York City, New York22 May 1931
    • TheatricalNR1 Aug 1931

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The Smiling Lieutenant was released on 1 August 1931.

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    CinemaSerf

    5/4/2024

    7/10

    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.…

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