The Boudoir Diplomat
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Genre Comedy, Romance Running time 1h 8m Screenplay Benjamin Glazer, Tom Reed Language English | Director Malcolm St. Clair Duration Music director Heinz Eric Roemheld Country United States | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Release date December 5, 1930 (1930-12-05) Writer Benjamin Glazer, Fritz Gottwald (play), Rudolph Lothar (play), Tom Reed Cast Betty Compson (Helene), Ian Keith (Baron Belmar), Mary Duncan (Mona), Lawrence Grant (Ambassador), Jeanette Loff (Greta)Similar movies Arise - My Love (1940), 7th Heaven (1927), Song of My Heart (1948), The Blacksmith (1922), The Goat (1921) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Boudoir Diplomat is a 1930 American romantic comedy film directed by Malcolm St. Clair, produced and distributed by Universal Pictures, from the play The Command To Love by Fritz Gottwald and Rudolph Lothar.
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The film is preserved at the Library of Congress.
Plot
Ian Keith plays a French military attache in Madrid who romantically pursues the wives of various government officials. Betty Compson and Mary Duncan play the objects of his attention.
Release
The film opened to much fan-fare on December 5, 1930. According to Mordaunt Halls review of the film, the lobby in New Yorks showcase theater, the Globe, was elaborately decorated for the films run "with pink silk and photographs with violet borders."
Alternate Version
The film was remade during production into three alternate-language versions. Boudoir diplomatique was the French-language version, starring Ivan Petrovich and Arlette Marchal. It was directed by Marcel De Sano and released in 1931, and is not likely to have been screened publicly in the United States. A Spanish-language version of Boudoir Diplomat was released on February 13, 1931 as Don Juan diplomatico. It was co-directed by George Melford (he would direct the 1931 Spanish-language version of Dracula) with Enrique Tovar Avalos, and starred Miguel Faust Rocha, Lia Tora and Celia Montalvan. Liebe auf Befehl, co-directed by Johannes Riemann and Ernst L. Frank, was the German-language version, starring Riemann along with Tala Birell and Olga Tschechowa.
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