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Tag Archives: Maurice Chevalier
Count Your Blessings (1959) Jean Negulesco
Grace hastily marries a French aristocrat during WWII, but is separated by circumstance from him for almost nine years. Read More »
Love in the Afternoon (1957) Billy Wilder, Gary Cooper, Audrey Hepburn, Maurice Chevalier
In Paris, detective Claude Chavasse is hired to follow a wife suspected of infidelity with the notorious American libertine Frank Flannagan. Read More »
Jessica (1962) Jean Negulesco, Oreste Palella, Angie Dickinson, Maurice Chevalier, Noël-Noël
The women of a small Sicilian village, jealous of a beautiful widowed midwife Read More »
Personal Column (1939) Robert Siodmak, Maurice Chevalier, Pierre Renoir, Marie Déa
After one of her fellow taxi dancers is murdered by an unknown man who she met through a personal column advert Read More »
One Hour with You (1932) George Cukor, Ernst Lubitsch, Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald, Genevieve Tobin, Comedy, Musical, Romance
Andre and Colette Bertier are happily married. When Colette introduces her husband to her flirtatious best friend, Mitzi, he does his best to resist her advances. Read More »
The Love Parade (1929) Ernst Lubitsch, Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald, Lupino Lane, Comedy, Musical, Romance
Queen Louise’s cabinet are worried that she will become an old maid, and are delighted when she marries the rougish Count Renard. Read More »
The Smiling Lieutenant (1931) Ernst Lubitsch, Maurice Chevalier, Claudette Colbert, Miriam Hopkins, Comedy, Romance, Musical
Lieutenant Niki of the Austrian royal guard has a new girlfriend, Franzi. He’s crazy about her and is smiling at her while on duty in the street.
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Panic Button (1964) George Sherman, Giuliano Carnimeo, Maurice Chevalier, Eleanor Parker, Jayne Mansfield, Comedy
A businessman plans to solve his tax problems by financing a film version of “Romeo and Juliet”. He hires Maurice Chevalier and Jayne Mansfield to play the title roles, and Akim Tamiroff to direct. The finished film is shown at the Venice Film Festival, where it’s considered a witty parody and awarded a Golden Lion.
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