New Moon (1930 film)
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4/10 Letterboxd Genre Drama, Musical, Romance Costume design Adrian Adolph Greenberg Language English | 6.2/10 Duration Country United States | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Writer Release date United StatesDecember 1930 (premiere)17 January 1931 (wide)Finland16 November 1931Denmark14 July 1932 Cast (Lieutenant Michael Petroff), (Princess Tanya Strogoff), (Governor Boris Brusiloff), (Count Strogoff), Gus Shy (Potkin), (Countess Anastasia Strogoff)Similar movies Related Jack Conway movies |
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New Moon is the name of two different film versions of the operetta The New Moon with music by Sigmund Romberg and book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II and others. The original stage version premiered on Broadway in 1928. The 1930 version of New Moon is a 1930 black-and-white American musical film, and is also known as Komissa Strogoff in Greece, Nymånen in Denmark and Passione cosacca in Italy.
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- New moon 1930 lawrence tibbett and grace moore copy
- New moon trailer 1940
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The 1930 film, directed by Jack Conway, starred Grace Moore and Lawrence Tibbett. It had an entirely different plot to the original play and is set in Russia. A 1940 film of the same name, also based on the operetta directed by Robert Z. Leonard and W. S. Van Dyke (uncredited), starred Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy and also reworked the plot, though it was slightly more faithful than the 1930 version. However, the music was not always presented faithfully. The 1930 version added new songs not by Romberg, and the 1940 version turns the melancholy tango number "Softly, As in a Morning Sunrise", originally sung by the hero's best friend, into a cheerful little ditty sung by Eddy while he shines his shoes.

New moon trailer 1940
Synopsis
New Moon is the name of a ship crossing the Caspian Sea. A young man named Lt. Petroff meets Princess Tanya and they have a ship-board romance. Upon arriving at the port of Krasnov, Petroff learns that Tanya is engaged to Governor Brusiloff.
Petroff, disillusioned, crashes the ball to talk with Tanya. When the couple are found by Brusiloff, they invent a story about her lost bracelet. To reward him, and remove him, Brusiloff sends Petroff to the remote, and deadly, Fort Darvaz. Soon, the big battle against overwhelming odds will begin.
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