Champagne Waltz
7 /10 1 Votes
Director A. Edward Sutherland Music director Oscar Hammerstein II Duration Country United States | 7/10 IMDb Genre Comedy Costume design Travis Banton Language English | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Writer Frank Butler , Billy Wilder , Hy Kraft Release date 1937 (1937) Cast Fred MacMurray, Jack Oakie Similar movies Related A Edward Sutherland movies | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Champagne Waltz is one of five movies produced by Paramount in the 1930s featuring Gladys Swarthout, a very popular Metropolitan Opera mezzo-soprano. The studio was attempting to build on the popularity of Grace Moore, another opera singer, who had also expanded her talents into movies.
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Production
This is a light musical with elements of screwball comedy. It documents the rivalry between a Vienna Waltz studio and the American jazz band that moves in next door. Franz Strauss is stressed because his waltz palace is losing business to the jazz club. Fred MacMurray is the trumpet-playing headliner. He pretends to be the US Consul when he encounters Swarthout, the daughter of the waltz studio owner. He changes the story to be an icebox salesman in order to continue wooing Swarthout. Meanwhile, Oakie is falling for a countess who sold him a fake silver service.
Time magazine gave the movie a poor review as a "heavy-handed musical naively designed to combine the best features of jazz with those of the Viennese waltz."
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References
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