The Smiling Lieutenant 1931

One of over 700 Paramount productions, filmed between 1929 and 1949, which were sold to MCA/Universal in 1958 for television distribution, and have been owned and controlled by Universal ever since, but because of complicated legal entanglements, this title was withheld from television presentation for many years. The restored version was first released on DVD 12 February 2008 as one of 4 features in Criterion's Lubitsch Musicals collection, and has since that time has also enjoyed occasional presentations on cable TV on Turner Classic Movies.

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Contents.Plot In, Lieutenant Nikolaus 'Niki' von Preyn meets Franzi , the leader of an all-female-orchestra. They soon fall in love with each other.

While standing in formation before a parade honoring the visiting royal family of Flausenthurm, Niki takes the opportunity to wink at Franzi in the crowd. Unfortunately the gesture is intercepted by Anna, the Princess of Flausenthurm. The naive Princess assumes offense, leading the lieutenant to convince her that he slighted her because she is thought to be very beautiful. Besotted, the Princess demands she has to marry the lieutenant, or, she'll marry an American instead. The international incident is narrowly averted by having them get married.The Lieutenant sneaks away from his bride to wander the streets of Flausenthurm to find his girlfriend. The princess learns of this and decides to confront Franzi. After the initial confrontation, Franzi sees that the princess is in fact deeply in love with the lieutenant, and decides to save the marriage by giving the princess a makeover, singing 'Jazz up your lingerie!'

The results are a complete success as the Lieutenant follows his satin-clad, cigarette-puffing bride into the bedroom and closes the door – only to open it and give the audience a last song and a suggestive wink.Cast. as Lieutenant Nikolaus 'Niki' von Preyn. as Franzi. as Princess Anna. as Max. as King Adolf XV. as Niki's Orderly.

as Bill Collector (uncredited). Drive by abk blaze. Cornelius MacSunday as (uncredited)Production The film was not made under pleasant circumstances: the shift to the Astoria, New York, studios accounts for the sense of confinement on set. Chevalier described performing – 'smiles and cute winks of the eye' – a 'mechanical display of technique' due to grief over his mother's death. Lubitsch also played referee between Colbert and Hopkins, who were determined to be shot from the same angle. Lubitsch encouraged their dispute that suited their characters on screen.Scenes from the film were included in the 1931 promotional film by Paramount,.Reception The Smiling Lieutenant was Paramount's biggest grosser of 1931.

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Barrios claims that 'Lubitsch and Chevalier were invincible'. It was also named the year's 'Best Ten' by The New York Times, along with 's and 's.Lubitsch was still in the stages of mastering sound-on-film technology and combining it with narrative: James Harvey acclaims that 'technically The Smiling Lieutenant is the most accomplished of Lubitsch's early sound films. In sets, camerawork, background music, alternations of sound and silence, thus the film reaches a certain level that makes and look comparatively stilted'. For, The Smiling Lieutenant stands between the 'lilting lyricism' of Love Parade and the 'tempered ironies' in.Due to an ongoing copyright dispute with the silent-film version, The Smiling Lieutenant remained out of circulation for years and was considered as a until a print in Denmark in the 1990s. When the film resurfaced, the 'general elation' was followed by 'an inevitable let down' due to technical problems. 'The Lubitsch Touch' The notion of 'The Lubitsch Touch' is used to describe the visual comment or joke that becomes a trademark or signature of Lubitsch's films. Defines the touch in relation to The Smiling Lieutenant: 'It was the elegant use of the Superjoke.

You had a joke, and you felt satisfied, and then there was one more big joke on top of it. The joke you didn't expect. That was the Lubitsch touch.' The ultimate Superjoke is that at the end of the film, 'the wrong girl gets the man'. References. ^ Barrios, Richard (1995).

A Song In The Dark: The Birth of Musical Film, p. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ^ Eyman, Scott (2000) 'Ernst Lubitsch: Laughter in Paradise. The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore. Hall, Mordaunt.

'Blue-Ribbon Pictures of 1931: The Guardsman Heads List of Best Ten', New York, 3 January 1932. Harvey, James (1998) 'Romantic Comedy in Hollywood: From Lubitsch to Sturges', p. Da Capo Press, New York. Sarris, Andrew (1972). 'Lubitsch in the Thirties: All Talking!

All Lubitsch!' , Film Comment 8, p. 21. Thompson, Kristin (2005) 'Herr Lubitsch Goes To Hollywood: German and American Film After World War I', p. Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam.External links. on.

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by Michael Koresky.