Criterion’s Best Picture Oscar Nominees
February 22, 2012
Lubitsch reunites Maurice Chevalier and Jeanette MacDonald, this time as a seemingly blissful couple whose marriage hits the skids when her flirtatious school chum comes on to her husband a bit too strong. Necking in the park at nighttime, husbands and wives having casual dalliances, and a butler telling his master, “I did so want to see you in tights!”: it’s one of Lubitsch’s sauciest escapades and his final “pre-Code” musical.
| Dr. Andre Bertier | Maurice Chevalier |
| Colette Bertier | Jeanette MacDonald |
| Mitzi Olivier | Genevieve Tobin |
| Adolph | Charles Ruggles |
| Professor Olivier | Roland Young |
| Mademoiselle Martel | Josephine Dunn |
| Detective Henri Dornier | Richard Carle |
| Mitzi’s maid | Barbara Leonard |
| Police Commissioner | George Barbier |
| Director | Ernst Lubitsch |
| Assisted by | George Cukor |
| Producer | Ernst Lubitsch |
| Screenplay | Samson Raphaelson |
| From the play by | Lothar Schmidt |
| Cinematography | Victor Milner |
| Editing | William Shea |
| Art director | Hans Dreier |
| Music | Oscar Straus |
| Lyrics | Leo Robin |
| Interpolated music | Richard A. Whiting |
| Gowns | Travis Banton |
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