The Merry Widow
Starring: Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald, Edward Everett Horton
Director: Ernst Lubitsch
Writer: Marcel Achard, Ernst Lubitsch, Ernest Vajda
Producer: Irving Thalberg, Ernst Lubitsch
The Merry Widow is a 1934 film adaptation of the 1905 operetta of the same name by Franz Lehár. The film was directed and produced by Ernst Lubitsch and stars Maurice Chevalier and Jeanette MacDonald. A French-language version was produced at the same time and released in France the same year as La veuve joyeuse.
Trivia
- Curtis Bernhardt, who directed the 1952 version of The Merry Widow, maintained that because the script for the 1934 film lacked a third act, Lubitsch adapted the jail scene from the third act of the Johann Strauss II comic operetta Die Fledermaus.
Previous Showings
6 Runs • 5 Festivals
Original Billings: 1 run (November 25, 1934)
All runs on record (6):
- November 25, 1934 (Sunday - Wednesday)Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald
- August 11 - 13, 2009Summer 2009w/ A Night at the Opera
- March 19 - 21, 2011Winter 2011 Early Bette Davis, Val Lewton and morew/ One Hour with You
- May 6 - 7, 2015Cary Grant every Fri-Sat-Sun Plus Ernst Lubitsch and Rouben Mamoulian every Wedsw/ The Gay Desperado
- March 4 - 5, 2017British and Lubitschw/ Design for Living
- March 13 - 14, 2025Lubitsch, Mamoulian, Sternberg Three Great Directorsw/ The Smiling Lieutenant