![]() Ernst Lubitsch and his wife Leni were going through a divorce and Maurice Chevalier mother had just died. Though a fun and happy film, not all was happy on set. To escape a potential court marshall, Niki says he was winking at Princess Anna, which complicates his love life. The king (Barbier) is furious, thinking Niki is laughing at his daughter, the Princess Anna (Hopkins). Nikolaus ‘Niki’ von Preyn (Chevalier) is standing at attention for the visiting king of Flausenthurm, he winks at his girlfriend Franzi (Colbert). Maurice Chevalier, Claudette Colbert, Miriam Hopkins, Charles Ruggles, George Barbier, Hugh O’Connell, Elizabeth Patterson (uncredited) The Smiling Lieutenant (1931) – Musical #358 To celebrate and share this musical love, here is my weekly feature about musicals. In 2010, I revealed I had seen 400 movie musicals over the course of eight years. It’s no secret that the Hollywood Comet loves musicals.
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