The Merry Widow (1934 film)
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88% Rotten Tomatoes Genre Musical, Comedy, Romance Duration Country United States | 7.5/10 IMDb Director Ernst Lubitsch Budget 1.605 million USD | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Language English
French
(separate versions) Writer Victor Leon , Leo Stein , Ernest Vajda , Samson Raphaelson , Marcel Achard Release date November 2, 1934 (1934-11-02) Music director Franz Lehar, Richard Rodgers, Herbert Stothart Cast Maurice Chevalier (Count Danilo), Jeanette MacDonald (Madame Sonia / Fifi), Edward Everett Horton (Ambassador Popoff), Una Merkel (Queen Dolores), George Barbier (King Achmet)Similar movies Related Ernst Lubitsch movies | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Merry Widow is a 1934 film adaptation of the operetta of the same name by Franz Lehár. It was directed and produced by Ernst Lubitsch and starred 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.
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The merry widow 1934
Plot
Playboy Captain Danilo (Maurice Chevalier) is ordered by King Achmet of Marshovia (George Barbier) to court and marry Madame Sonia (Jeanette MacDonald), a rich widow who owns a large portion of the kingdom.
Awards and honors
Cedric Gibbons and Fredric Hope won the Academy Award for Best Art Direction.
The film is recognized by American Film Institute in these lists:
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