The Smiling Lieutenant
Comedy
Romance
Maurice Chevalier laughing and loving again in Ernst Lubitsch's sparkling cocktail of romantic merriment
An amorous lieutenant is forced to marry a socially awkward princess, though he tries to keep his violin-playing girlfriend on the side.
1931-08-01
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Cast
Director
Ernst Lubitsch
Maurice Chevalier as Lt. Nikolaus 'Niki' von Preyn
Claudette Colbert as Franzi
Miriam Hopkins as Princess Anna
Charles Ruggles as Max
George Barbier as King Adolf XV
Hugh O'Connell as Niki's Orderly
Granville Bates as Bill Collector (uncredited)
Harry C. Bradley as Count Von Holden (uncredited)
Carrie Daumery as Lady in Waiting (uncredited)
Elizabeth Patterson as Baroness Von Schwedel (uncredited)
Robert Strange as Colonel Rockoff (uncredited)
Charles Wagenheim as Arresting Officer (uncredited)