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CREDITS
1934, 104 minutes, B&W.
Director, Ernst Lubitsch; Screenplay, Ernest Vajda and Samson Raphaelson; Cinematography, Oliver T. Marsh; Dance Direction, Albertina Rasch.
CAST
Danilo, Maurice Chevalier; Sonia, Jeanette MacDonald; Ambassador, Edward Everett Horton; Queen, Una Merkel; King, George Barbier; Marcelle, Minna Gombell; Lulu, Ruth Channing; Orderly, Sterling Holloway; Valet, Donald Meek; Zizipoff, Herman Bing.
SONGS
The Merry Widow Waltz; Girls Girls Girls; Vilia; Maxims; Melody of Laughter; If Widows Are Rich by Franz Lehar and Lorenz Hart; Tonight Will Teach Me to Forget by Lehar and Gus Kahn.
PLOT SYNOPSIS
"Jeanette MacDonlad is Sonia, a bubbly widow who owns 52% of every cow and cow town in the tiny European country of Marshovia. When she relocates to glittery Paris, suave ladies' man Captain Danilo (Maurice Chevalier) sets out in hot pursuit. His mission: avert his homeland's financial ruin by bringing Sonia back on the wings of love."
- Liner Notes from MGM/Turner Laserdisc
NOTES
". . .One of the great screen musicals of all time, an enchantingly intoxicating mixture of music and romance, sparkingly directed, and performed with style and grace by its two leading players."
- Clive Hirschhorn, The Hollywood Musical
"Fine all-around job and an entertainment natural."
- Variety
MGM remade The Merry Widow in 1952.
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