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
- Won the Academy Award for Best Production Design.
- 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
7 Runs • 3 Festivals
All runs on record (7):
- February 5 - 9, 1988w/ Love Me Tonight
- September 5 - 7, 1990w/ San Francisco
- January 18 - 20, 1992w/ Heaven Can Wait
- November 6 - 9, 1999Holiday 1999w/ The Prisoner of Zenda
- March 22 - 23, 2001Winter 2001w/ The Gay Divorcee
- September 22 - 23, 2005Summer 2005w/ One Hour with You
- May 8 - 10, 2015w/ Wedding Present