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Monte Carlo (1930)

After the master of sophisticated romantic comedy, Ernst Lubitsch, directed Jeanette MacDonald in the smash hit The Love Parade, they were reunited a year later for this similarly frothy romp. Countess Vera Von Conti (MacDonald) is engaged to marry the dull Prince Otto Von Seibenheim (Claud Allister), whom she doesn't love. At the 11th hour, Vera decides to skip the wedding and instead heads to Monte Carlo, where she visits the casinos and begins losing in a heroic fashion. A handsome stranger spies the beautiful Vera and asks to touch her hair for luck, but instead it's Vera's luck that dramatically improves as she wins back her fortune. Vera immediately offers the man a job as her combination valet and good luck charm, not knowing that he's actually the wealthy and powerful Count Rudolph Falliere (Jack Buchanan). The Count plays along, pretending to be a commoner as he uses his new position with Vera to learn how he can win her heart. As one might expect, MacDonald sings several songs (including "Beyond the Blue Horizon"), and also duets with British music star Jack Buchanan on "Whatever It Is, It's Grand" and "Always in All Ways."

Directer/Producer: Ernst Lubitsch
Writers: Ernest Vajda, Hans Müller-Einigen, Booth Tarkington, Evelyn Greenleaf Sutherland
Music: W. Franke Harling
Cinematography: Victor Milner

Cast: Jack Buchanan, Jeanette MacDonald, Claud Allister, Zasu Pitts, Tyler Brooke, John Roche, Lionel Belmore, Albert Conti, Helen Garden, Donald Novis, Erik Bey

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0021153/

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Film & Animation

Tags:

• Monte
• Carlo
• (1930)

[talmadge1926]

Beyond the blue Horizon always reduces me to tears. I saw it and her 1st time the week after she died. The British press mostly ignored her passing. Just one short three liner headed "Americas Singing Sweetheart Dies". An outraged host of a weekly film history programme on ITV dedicated an hour to her memory and said the press should be ashamed of themselves. Bravo! There was nobody that could hold a candle to her in that particular film genre with a smile that reached fans all over the world.

[grainofsandfan]

I saw her on "This is Your Life'" when it was shown again years after it was first shown on television.

She was just amazing and Nelson Eddy was there and it was so intense, their love and respect for one another. It just came out of the screen, the depth of emotion. I haven't seen anything like that on television, live, since then.