Academy Awards, USA 1935
| Won Oscar | Best Art Direction Cedric Gibbons Fredric Hope |
MGM
Directed by Ernst Lubitsch
My rating: 2 stars out of 4
IMDb
(Turner Classic Movies)
Jeanette MacDonald is a wealthy widow in a fictional eastern European country who flees to Paris to find happiness. One of the reasons she is leaving is to escape the amorous advances of a high ranking military officer, Maurice Chevalier. After he gets caught in the bedchamber of the queen, Chevalier is banished to Paris as well, where he of course meets up again with MacDonald in Maxime's nightclub. Despite her resistance, he continues to pursue her and she eventually gives in, leading to the inevitable happy ending. Chevalier's playboy character is insufferable, although MacDonald calls him out, in the end she still falls for his offensive chauvinism. There are the usual plush Lubitsch settings and some interesting fluid camera movements, but Chevalier always seems to get in the way.
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