The Smiling Lieutenant
Starring: Maurice Chevalier, Claudette Colbert, Miriam Hopkins
Director: Ernst Lubitsch
Writer: Ernst Lubitsch, Ernest Vajda, Samson Raphaelson
Producer: Ernst Lubitsch
The Smiling Lieutenant is a 1931 American pre-Code musical comedy film directed by Ernst Lubitsch, starring Maurice Chevalier, Claudette Colbert and Miriam Hopkins, and released by Paramount Pictures.
Trivia
- Nominated for: Academy Award for Best Picture.
- The film was not made under pleasant circumstances: the shift to the Astoria, New York, studios accounts for the sense of confinement on set.
- Chevalier described performing – "smiles and cute winks of the eye" – a "mechanical display of technique" due to grief over his mother's death.
- Lubitsch encouraged their dispute that suited their characters on screen.
Previous Showings
10 Runs • 6 Festivals
4,473 tickets sold
Original Billings: 1 run (August 24, 1931)
Original Run: August 24, 1931 (Monday - Wednesday)
All runs on record (10):
- August 24, 1931 (Monday - Wednesday)Maurice Chevalier, Claudette Colbert
- October 12 - 14, 1990 · 1,035 ticketsw/ The Love Parade, One Hour with You
- February 6 - 7, 1992 · 363 ticketsw/ The Love Parade
- October 18 - 20, 1995 · 542 ticketsw/ Death Takes a Holiday
- February 22 - 23, 2001 · 608 ticketsWinter 2001w/ Monte Carlo
- July 9, 2008 · 702 ticketsSummer 2008 Bette Davis, James Stewart, silent films and more!w/ City Lights
- May 11 - 13, 2011 · 334 ticketsMusicalsw/ Applause
- April 1 - 2, 2015 · 301 ticketsCary Grant every Fri-Sat-Sun Plus Ernst Lubitsch and Rouben Mamoulian every Wedsw/ Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
- February 16 - 17, 2017 · 263 ticketsBritish and Lubitschw/ Broken Lullaby
- March 13 - 14, 2025 · 325 ticketsLubitsch, Mamoulian, Sternberg Three Great Directorsw/ The Merry Widow