| Academy Awards, USA | |||
| Year | Result | Award | Category/Recipient(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1949 | Nominated | Oscar | Best Music, Original Song Friedrich Hollaender (music) Leo Robin (lyrics) For the song "This Is the Moment" |
Twentieth Century-Fox Film
Directed by Ernst Lubitsch and Otto Preminger
My rating: 2 stars out of 4
IMDb
(Turner Classic Movies)
Silly romantic fantasy with Betty Grable miscast as a countess whose castle is overrun by invading Hungarians on her honeymoon. Her husband disguises himself as a gypsy while she proceeds to fall in love with the Colonel of the invaders. The plot is complicated by a duplicate Betty, who steps out of an old painting to help save the castle. At one point Betty sings a song to herself. The romance is superficial and the acting pedestrian, but it all takes place on lush sets in brilliant Technicolor. Lubitsch is credited as director, but this is mainly Otto Preminger's work, and it shows.
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