Love Me Tonight
Starring: Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald, Charles Ruggles
Director: Rouben Mamoulian
Writer: Samuel Hoffenstein, George Marion, Jr., Waldemar Young
Producer: Rouben Mamoulian
Love Me Tonight is a 1932 American pre-Code musical comedy film produced and directed by Rouben Mamoulian, with music by Rodgers and Hart. It stars Maurice Chevalier as a tailor who poses as a nobleman and Jeanette MacDonald as a princess with whom he falls in love. It also stars Charles Ruggles as a penniless nobleman, along with Charles Butterworth and Myrna Loy as members of his family.
Trivia
- In 1930, dealing with losses from the stock market collapse in 1929, they accepted a lucrative three-picture contract from Jack Warner and went to Hollywood.
- Unfortunately the film they were assigned had one star who couldn't sing and another with a very limited range, so they were limited in what they could write.
- Working together the director and songwriters "devised a singular method of staging a musical film using a previously underutilized tool: the camera itself," biographer Todd S. Purdum writes.
Previous Showings
12 Runs • 8 Festivals
10,580 tickets sold
Original Billings: 1 run (September 18, 1932)
Original Run: September 18, 1932 (Sunday - Tuesday)
All runs on record (12):
- September 18, 1932 (Sunday - Tuesday)Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald
- February 5 - 9, 1988 · 0 ticketsw/ The Merry Widow (1934), The Love Parade, One Hour with You, Monte Carlo
- August 14 - 17, 1993 · 1,209 ticketsw/ Queen Christina
- August 21 - 22, 1997 · 981 ticketsw/ Queen Christina
- October 23 - 26, 1999 · 1,160 ticketsHoliday 1999w/ Queen Christina
- March 1 - 2, 2001 · 803 ticketsWinter 2001w/ One Hour with You
- September 4 - 7, 2003 · 1,736 ticketsSummer 2003w/ Show Boat
- February 10 - 11, 2007 · 1,261 ticketsFilm Noir, Val Lewton, 1930s musicals and more!w/ Shanghai Express
- May 15 - 18, 2010 · 1,057 ticketsSpring 2010w/ Trouble in Paradise
- April 8 - 9, 2015 · 371 ticketsCary Grant every Fri-Sat-Sun Plus Ernst Lubitsch and Rouben Mamoulian every Wedsw/ The Man I Killed (Broken Lullaby)
- August 13 - 16, 2016 · 1,053 ticketsSummer 2016w/ Love in the Afternoon
- February 20 - 23, 2025 · 949 ticketsLubitsch, Mamoulian, Sternberg Three Great Directorsw/ The Scarlet Empress