This musical is one of the best film musicals I can recall seeing in a very long time. The director Rouben Mamoulian used about every cinematic trick in the book, The score is by Richard Rogers and Lorenz Hart.
The story is certainly musical silly, Maurice Chevalier is a tailor who gets mistaken for a European nobleman. He falls in love with a princess played by Jeanette MacDonald before she signed with MGM, the studio that promptly sucked the sexiness out of her.
The rest of the cast is a compendium of 1930's stars. Myrna Loy, Charles Ruggles, Charles Butterworth and in a rare singing part C.Aubrey Smith of all actors. Ernest Lubitsch was usually considered the master of the Paramount musical but I would have to say that Mamoulian and his production team easily topped him.
The screenplay was Samuel Hoffenstein George Marion Jr., and Waldemar Young. The film runs 104 minutes.
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