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  1. The Smiling Lieutenant is a 1931 American pre-Code musical comedy film directed by Ernst Lubitsch, starring Maurice Chevalier, Claudette Colbert and Miriam Hopkins, and released by Paramount Pictures . It was written by Samson Raphaelson and Ernest Vajda from the operetta Ein Walzertraum by Oscar Straus, with libretto by Leopold Jacobson [ de ...

  2. The Smiling Lieutenant: Directed by Ernst Lubitsch. With Maurice Chevalier, Claudette Colbert, Miriam Hopkins, Charles Ruggles. 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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  3. A Viennese lieutenant (Maurice Chevalier) falls for a jazz singer (Claudette Colbert) and a princess (Miriam Hopkins) in this 1931 film by the master of wit and elegance. The Criterion Collection offers a restoration of this classic Lubitsch touch, with cast and crew information, film notes, and more.

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  4. A romantic farce about a young lieutenant who accidentally marries a princess instead of his true love. Based on an operetta and a novel, directed by Ernst Lubitsch and starring Maurice Chevalier and Claudette Colbert.

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  5. Page 1 of 6, 11 total items. A simple wink, intended by Austrian palace guard Lt. Nikolaus von Preyn (Maurice Chevalier) for girlfriend, Franzi (Claudette Colbert), is accidentally intercepted ...

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  6. The beauty of a film like Smiling Lieutenant rests in the piano duet between Miriam Hopkins and Claudette Colbert, where one gal shows the other how to thrive in a prudish, male-dominated world, singing "jazz up yer lingerie" with carefree radicalism. Lubitsch’s films privilege self-contained moments of constructive hedonism, sexual thrill and musical spectacle.

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  8. The Smiling Lieutenant. The Smiling Lieutenant is a 1931 American musical comedy movie directed by Ernst Lubitsch and was based on the 1905 novel Nux, der Prinzgemahl by Hans Müller-Einigen and was nominated for an Academy Award in 1932. Actors include Maurice Chevalier, Claudette Colbert, Miriam Hopkins, Charles Ruggles, George Barbier, Hugh ...