Synopsis
Jeanette MacDonald’s independent-minded countess leaves her foppish prince fiancé at the altar, and whisks herself away to the Riviera. There, she strikes the fancy of the sly Count Rudolph (theater veteran Jack Buchanan), who poses as a hairdresser to get into her boudoir. Lubitsch’s follow-up to The Love Parade shows even more musical invention, and presents MacDonald at her sexily haughty best.
Cast
| Count Rudolph Farriere | Jack Buchanan |
| Countess Helene Mara | Jeanette MacDonald |
| Duke Otto von Liebenheim | Claude Allister |
| Bertha | Zasu Pits |
| Armand | Tyler Brooke |
| Paul | John Roche |
| Prince Gustav von Liebenheim | Lionel Belmore |
| Master of Ceremonies | Albert Conti |
Credits
| Director | Ernst Lubitsch |
| Producer | Ernst Lubitsch |
| Screenplay | Ernest Vajda |
| From "The Blue Coast" by | Hans Mueller |
| And an episode of from “Monsieur Beaucaire” by | Booth Tarkington and Evelyn Greenleaf Sutherland |
| Additional dialogue | Vincent Lawrence |
| Cinematography | Victor Milner |
| Editing | Merrill G. White |
| Music and lyrics | Leo Robin, W. Franke Harling and Richard Whiting |
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Feb 11, 2008
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