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Marianne is a 1929 pre-Code romantic-musical film set at the end of World War I. Marianne is French farm girl who, although her French fiancé is away, fighting, falls in love with an American soldier. It is a remake of a silent film that was released earlier in 1929.
Marianne: Directed by Robert Z. Leonard. With Marion Davies, George Baxter, Lawrence Gray, Cliff Edwards. During World War I, a young French woman struggles to choose between two suitors: a blind soldier to whom she is engaged and an American serviceman.
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- Drama, Musical, Romance
- Robert Z. Leonard
- 1929-08-24
Marianne, a fresh and bubbly French heroine, runs an inn and also a nursery in a small French town during the World War. Separated from her childhood sweetheart, André, she promises to wait for him. Her town is partially destroyed, and a company of American soldiers is quartered there, awaiting orders to return home.
- Robert Z. Leonard
- George Baxter
Marianne is a 1929 pre-Code romantic-musical film set at the end of World War I. Marianne is French farm girl who, although her French fiancé is away, fighting, falls in love with an American soldier. It is a remake of a silent film that was released earlier in 1929.
A Marion Davies WW1-era romantic musical comedy. Doing a French accent in her first full length talking picture (and her second time in the Marianne role) was certainly a…choice.
- Robert Z. Leonard
- Cosmopolitan Productions, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Marion Davies plays a French girl whose fiancee is at the front in World War I. When American troops are billeted in her village after the armistice, she is romanced by and falls for a soldier, and must make a decision who to go with when her fiancee returns blinded.
At the height of World War I, playful French country girl Marianne (Marion Davies) patiently awaits the return of her soldier fiancé, André (George Baxter).
- Musical, Comedy
