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The Smiling Lieutenant (1931)

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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Justin R 11 Apr 2009

A movie where everyone just wants to get laid, and eventually does. It might be more of a kinky thrill if it didn't also have a bizarrely conservative pro-monogamy, pro-marriage theme. That, and the ending vaguely reminded me of GREASE.

Katie R 27 Mar 2008

This is one odd movie, made even more obvious when you consider it was made in 1931. Maurice Chevalier (who might as well be eating the scenery) is the title Lieutenant, and his casual smile at his love interest one day lands him in an international affair with a passing princess who assumes the smile was for her. And yes, 90 minutes of plot were made from this. I will admit, the movie is much better than I make it sound. It's odd (Chevalier's addressing the audience is scary...), it's a pretty tight story (it wraps up nicely) and it has good music (this is a musical, after all). Speaking of which, I think a whole star in my score is for the song "Jazz Up your Lingerie" and a line from some song which, I swear, sounded like "There's paradise in every slice of bacon."

Adam S 16 Aug 2011

Maurice Chevalier has a nice problem, blonde Princess Miriam Hopkins and brunette violinist Claudette Colbert both love him, in this frothy, partly musical romantic comedy from Ernst Lubitsch. Chevalier is perky as usual, but it's Colbert and Hopkins (soon to star in the Lubitsch masterpiece "Trouble in Paradise"), and Charlie Ruggles as a sweet, kindly King, that make it so charming. Lubitsch's first collaboration with Samson Raphaelson, the writer of some of his best films to come.

Antonius B 30 Mar 2016

I'll be honest, Claudette Colbert is very cute and she made this movie for me. The plot has a somewhat dippy Maurice Chevalier marrying a Princess (Miriam Hopkins) to avoid an international incident, thus breaking his lover's (Colbert's) heart. When she arranges to meet up with him anyway, she's caught by Hopkins, and after a mutual, (hilariously overwrought) cry, she tells Hopkins (in song) that in order to keep Chevalier, "Jazz Up Your Lingerie". The movie is pre-Code which made scenes like that possible, as well as allude to unmarried sex between Colbert and Chevalier, and Hopkins's desire to consummate her marriage. This naughtiness is also part of the movie's charm. It's interesting that the movie wrong-foots us by having the 'wrong girl' get the man. A big hit in 1931 and nominated by the Academy for Best Picture, it's still very watchable 85 years later.

Martin T 10 Aug 2009

This is just one of those movies that is so damn cute and adorable, you can't not like it. Ernst Lubitsch really has the unique ability of creating films that are just affectionate, adorable films. Charles Ruggles is great in this film and the scenes where he breaks the fourth wall were particularly entertaining for me. The film is very well executed for the time and the musical numbers were short and sweet.