The Smiling Lieutenant

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The Smiling Lieutenant ★★ ½ 1931

Flirting at the wrong time/wrong place can get a guy into big trouble. Niki (Chevalier), an officer with Vienna's Royal Guards, is romancing violinist Franzi (Colbert). During a visit by King Adolf (Barbier), his plain daughter Princess Anna (Hopkins) mistakes a smile meant for Franzi to mean that Niki is interested in her. Duty-bound, Niki is forced into a royal marriage. So the worldly Franzi decides to help Anna win her reluctant new hubby's love by turning her into a knockout. 102m/B DVD . Maurice Chevalier, Claudette Colbert, Miriam Hopkins, George Barbier, Charlie Ruggles, Robert Strange, Hugh O'Connell; D: Ernst Lubitsch; W: Ernst Lubitsch, Ernest Vajda, Samson Raphaelson; C: George J. Folsey; M: Oscar Straus.

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