

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