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	The Cinema of Ernst Lubitsch: Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		While publicly flirting with Colbert, Chevalier is spotted by a dowdy princess (Miriam Hopkins), who thinks that the lieutenant's wink was meant for her.
		But good-hearted Colbert takes the princess aside, dolls her up, and instructs her how to bewitch--and keep--her man. Chevalier is enchanted by the "new" princess, while Colbert, who will have no trouble finding someone else to keep her warm and comfortable, cheerfully sashays out of his life.
		Long thought lost, The Smiling Lieutenant was rediscovered in an East European vault in the 1970s.
	www.lubitsch.com /smiling.html (110 words)

	The Smiling Lieutenant
		The Lieutenant (Chevalier) while on riding in a parade honoring the visiting royal family of Flausenthurm takes an opportunity to smile at his girlfriend in the crowd.
		Unfortunately the smile is intercepted by the Princess of Flausenthurm, and an international incident is narrowly avoided by having them marry.
		The Lieutenant continually sneaks away from his dowdy bride to visit his girlfriend (Colbert) who decides to confront the princess.
	www.danceage.com /biography/sdmc_The_Smiling_Lieutenant (171 words)

	Refusal to Mourn
		The call came in while Philip was sitting in Lieutenant Bill Rozak's office discussing a fishing trip they were planning.
		The Lieutenant looked at him, sternly telling him: "It was a young girl for God sake, what in the hell would you think she died of, a Myocardial Infarction?
		The smiling Lieutenant, proud of his medical acumen told him: "It's commonly called a sudden heart attack, and young people are not often victims of it.
	www.authorhouse.com /BookStore/ItemDetail~bookid~11525.aspx (1590 words)

	Claudette Colbert
		Lieutenant Kiki of the Austrian royal guard has a new girlfriend, Franzi.
		He's crazy about her, and is smiling at her while on duty in the street.
		King Adolf and his daughter Princess Anna from the neighboring kingdom of Flausenshaum drive by, and Anna intercepts a wink meant for Franzi.
	www.videorarities.net /ccolbert.html (730 words)

	Something Old, Nothing New: The Smiling Lieutenant
		The Smiling Lieutenant is based on Oscar Straus's Viennese operetta "A Waltz Dream", though Lubitsch relegated all the operetta's songs to background music and had Straus write a few new songs in a more modern style.
		The basic idea is that Niki (Maurice Chevalier), a Viennese lieutenant, is forced into marriage with Anna (Miriam Hopkins), princess of the tiny kingdom of Flausenthurm, and -- what's worse -- forced to leave his beloved Vienna and live in musty old Flausenthurm.
		In addition to "The Smiling Lieutenant", I would very much recommend most of Lubitsch's other early sound musicals, "Love Parade", "One Hour With You", "Monte Carlo" (a little creaky and with Chevalier replaced by the inadaquate Jack Buchanon), and the easily findable "The Merry Widow" which Lubitsch did for MGM.
	zvbxrpl.blogspot.com /2006/05/smiling-lieutenant.html (1690 words)

	B-24 pilot receives DFC, Air Medal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		They headed to San Francisco to pick up a new airplane to take overseas, but on the initial test flight a door on the nose turret blew off and caused a large hole in the wing which had to be repaired before they could leave.
		The flak, which was so thick it was later described by pilots as an elongated shoebox, was in front of the aircraft and it also took out the Plexiglass in front of the airplane around the bombsight.
		After pinning the medals on Lieutenant Kinsinger, the general turned the floor over to the 88-year-old veteran.
	www.af.mil /news/story.asp?storyID=123007031 (1200 words)

	Smiling Lieutenant, The (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		In Vienna, Lieutenant Nikolaus "Niki" von Preyn falls in love with violinist Franzi at a beer garden, although his married friend Max has had his eye on her.
		He smiles and winks at Franzi, who is across the street, just as the carriage passes, and Anna believes the smile was meant for her and that he was making fun of her.
		Noting that the king is easy prey to flattery, and realizing that telling the truth would be of no help, Niki claims that he smiled at Anna because he found her beautiful, and because of this, forgot his duty.
	www.doctormacro.com.cob-web.org:8888 /Movie%20Summaries/S/Smiling%20Lieutenant,%20The.htm (531 words)

	The Films of Max Ophuls (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Some elements here echo in a minor way Ernst Lubitsch's The Smiling Lieutenant (1931), a film version of an operetta by Oscar Strauss, who would go on to write the music for La Ronde.
		The heroine of The Smiling Lieutenant must leave the hero.
		There is a scene early in The Smiling Lieutenant where a succession of functionaries take turns in delivering a telegram to the King.
	members.aol.com /MG4273/ophuls.htm (4894 words)

	Ernst Lubitsch
		With the 1929 musical The Love Parade, he also launched the career of actress Jeanette MacDonald, whom he discovered in New York and cast opposite Maurice Chevalier, resulting in the beginning of one of the most legendary pairings in the annals of Hollywood.
		For 1931's The Smiling Lieutenant, Lubitsch first teamed with screenwriter Samson Raphaelson, who went on to pen the scripts for many of the director's greatest efforts, including 1932's Broken Lullaby, One Hour With You (the latter co-directed by an uncredited George Cukor), and Trouble in Paradise, as well as 1934's The Merry Widow.
		In 1935, Lubitsch was tapped to become Paramount's new head of production, but he exited the post after just one year to return his full focus to filmmaking, resurfacing with Desire in 1936.
	www.djangomusic.com /actor_bio.asp?pid=P100296 (651 words)

	The Smiling Lieutenant: Review and Credits
		During a state visit to the Austrian capital by King Adolf (George Barbier), his desperately plain daughter, Princess Anna (Miriam Hopkins), mistakenly believes that the smile Niki has intended for Franzi was actually directed in her royal direction, but is convinced the handsome soldier is only being kind.
		When Niki protests that he finds the princess attractive, she falls in love with him, and in no time, bound by his duty to his country, he finds himself married to her.
		The music is delightful, and the songs include such bon-bons as "Spruce Up Your Lingerie." Made and released during the Depression, THE SMILING LIEUTENANT offered welcome escapism for a public reeling under too real economic woes.
	www.lubitsch.com /smilingrev.html (311 words)

	Kathryn Schmiel \| On Board the Carrier
		Dwarfed by the sound-resistant headphones and canvas life jackets, several sizes too big, their brightly colored T-shirts and shorts, tan legs and sneaker-clad feet seemed incongruous against the gun-metal gray of the wall, but their grins told me they were having the time of their lives.
		Again we followed our lieutenant as he led us through a maze of narrow, twisting halls, up ladder-type stairs, through oval-shaped hatchways, until we reached the radio room.
		Our son listened attentively as the lieutenant explained in simple terms the science of navigation in the computer era.
	www.unc.edu /depts/diplomat/AD_Issues/amdipl_8/schmiel_carrier.html (1187 words)

	10th Festival of Preservation
		THE SMILING LIEUTENANT was Lubitsch's third musical in a row.
		Characteristically, his approach to the genre was a unique blend of the developing tradition of American musical comedy and the conventions of Viennese operetta remembered from his youth.
		In this film, Chevalier is a Viennese lieutenant who is forced to marry a homely princess, despite his love for a beer-garden violinist (Claudette Colbert).
	www.cinema.ucla.edu /festival/fp10/2000Fest4.html (1707 words)

	goatdog's movies - The Smiling Lieutenant, 1931 (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Chevalier, who was a funny-looking guy, plays Niki, a Viennese lieutenant who has a way with the ladies.
		Niki finds himself in trouble when, at a parade to welcome the Flausenthurm royalty, he smiles at Franzi in the crowd just as the royal carriage passes, and Anna is sure that the impetuous Viennese cad has laughed at her.
		The quick-thinking Niki, recognizing Anna's inferiority complex, informs her that he was smiling at her because of her great beauty.
	goatdog.com.cob-web.org:8888 /moviePage.php?movieID=741 (814 words)

	A Mingled Yarn, by H.M. Tomlinson, 1953
		I have seen those who smiled at a mention of a London Board School, but the staff of the only one I knew were men of parts, and did their best.
		I mounted a gangway, and remembered when the deck was reached that long ago the shrine of the Virgin was under a quarter deck, and therefore paused in memory of an august past, and doffed my hat.
		A smiling lieutenant with a telescope under his arm saluted me, asked kindly of my welfare, and ordered my disposal.
	www.ibiblio.org /eldritch/hmt/mingled.htm (8407 words)

	Maurice Chevalier - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		While under contract with Paramount, Chevalier was featured in the Marx Brothers film Monkey Business (1931) when his passport was used by each brother in turn, trying to sneak off the ocean liner where they were stowaways.
		In 1931, Maurice Chevalier starred in a musical called The Smiling Lieutenant along with Claudette Colbert.
		Despite the disdain audiences held for musicals in 1931[1], it proved to be a very successful film.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Maurice_Chevalier (1604 words)

	Reel Jewels > Films
		The other night I had a chance to watch "The Secret Fury" (1950) which I'd already seen previously some years back, and "The Smiling Lieutenant" (1931) which I saw for the first time.
		All of Claudette's films are awsome but there is a great difference between her earlier risque, pre-code* work to her later prim and morally proper films.
		Personally, I like "The Smiling Lieutenant" better because I was so taken with the idea that movies in the old days are by no means boring and tame, especially if you ever happen to catch any of these pre-1934 films.
	www.reeljewels.com /forums/lofiversion/index.php/t149.html (1084 words)

	The Smiling Lieutenant (1931) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Plot Summary: Lieutenant Niki of the Austrian royal guard has a new girlfriend, Franzi.
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	www.imdb.com /title/tt0022074 (344 words)

	The Smiling Lieutenant (1931 b 89') (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		They sing, "Breakfast Time, It Must Be Love." King Adolf XV (George Barbier) of Flausenthurm gets a telegram from the Austrian emperor, who cannot meet them at the station.
		During the parade Niki smiles at Franzi, but Adolf's daughter Anna (Miriam Hopkins) thinks he is laughing at her and is offended.
		Anna cries, but Niki charms Adolf and her and is made their adjutant.
	www.san.beck.org /MM/1931/SmilingLieutenant.html (384 words)

	Claudette Colbert Biography (1903-1996)
		Her first talkie, The Hole in the Wall (1929), was based on a 1920 play about a fake spiritualist and costarred Edward G. Robinson.
		She worked with Maurice Chevalier in The Big Pond (1930) and The Smiling Lieutenant (1931), and appeared with legendary stage star George M. Cohan in The Phantom President (1932), but failed to generate much excitement among movie fans.
		After Sign she took the lead in the seminal screwball comedy, Three-Cornered Moon (1933), which boosted her stock and gave audiences their first real taste of her comic skill.
	www.leninimports.com /claudette_colbert.html (653 words)

	VH1.com : Movies : The Smiling Lieutenant : Plot
		Maurice Chevalier plays a 19th century Viennese lieutenant, conducting an affair with sexy violinist Claudette Colbert.
		Miriam Hopkins), who thinks that the lieutenant's wink was meant for her.
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	www.vh1.com /movies/movie/74326/plot.jhtml (162 words)

	MovieMartyr.com - Cinemania
		Since these scenes present an environment that the editorial process can’t elide or much enhance, their presence goes a long way toward making it easy to dismiss concerns that the behavior of the participants is being unfairly exaggerated.
		It’s telling that probably the most enjoyable moment in the documentary is a positive one, which shows two of the participants as they giggle over the uproarious ending of The Smiling Lieutenant.
		It’s equally telling though that the most vividly rendered story details Roberta’s expulsion from MOMA (since rescinded) and suggests a potential danger in such extreme behavior.
	www.moviemartyr.com /2002/cinemania.htm (643 words)

	Ernst Lubitsch - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		With his first talkie, The Love Parade (1929), starring Maurice Chevalier and Jeanette MacDonald, Lubitsch hit his stride as a maker of worldly musical comedies (and got himself another Oscar nomination).
		The Love Parade (1929), Monte Carlo (1930), and The Smiling Lieutenant (1931) were hailed by critics as masterpieces of the newly emerging musical genre.
		His next film was a romantic comedy, written with Samson Raphaelson, Trouble in Paradise (1932).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ernst_Lubitsch (755 words)

	Memorable Quotes from The Smiling Lieutenant (1931) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Lieutenant Niki: Just picture your wife fifteen years younger, twenty pounds lighter, her hair dyed, her nose operated on.
		Lieutenant Niki: Remember what Napoleon said before he went to Elba: "So long."
		Lieutenant Niki: When we like someone, we smile.
	us.imdb.com /title/tt0022074/quotes (392 words)

	VH1.com : Movies : The Smiling Lieutenant : Main
		Maurice Chevalier plays a 19th century Viennese lieutenant, conducting an affair with sexy...
		Ernst Lubitsch had no finer interpreter of the Lubitsch style -- in musicals, at least - than Maurice Chevalier, and The Smiling Lieutenant takes full advantage of Cheval...
		Forced to marry the Princess, Chevalier despairs at her...
	www.vh1.com /movies/movie/74326/moviemain.jhtml (137 words)

	The Insider by Ken Mandelbaum: CDs: Brava Bronhill, - Broadway.com Buzz
		It concerned a Viennese lieutenant, married to a princess but attempting to escape the pressures of life at court, assisted by a female orchestra conductor who ultimately gets the hero back on the royal track.
		London also saw it in 1908, but with new lyrics by Adrian Ross, and, as was the case with Waltzes from Vienna, this recording employs the British version of the text.
		Outstanding are the title song; "That's the Life for Me" for the orchestra girl; and the female trio "Temperament." And the 1960 Waltzes from Vienna and Waltz Dream recordings are heard complete on this CD.
	www.broadway.com /gen/Buzz_Story.aspx?ci=524431 (1938 words)

	Keep Smiling # 164
		The teacher next asks, "Now, give me a sentence with both of those words in it." She calls on Little Johnny, and he says, "Our dog trickled down the street wagging her anecdote"
		A squad car driver was covering a quiet beat out in the sticks when he was amazed to find a former lieutenant on the police force covering the beat.
		He stopped the car and asked, "Why, Mike, this wouldn't be your new beat out here in the sticks, would it?"
	www.keepsmiling.com /newsletters/164.html (1769 words)

	TIME.com: Best Pictures -- Jan. 25, 1932 -- Page 1
		List of the ten best pictures of the year, selected by The Film Daily after a poll which this year included 339 cinema critics on newspapers with 30,000,000 readers:
		Little Caesar was the eleventh on the list, Smiling Lieutenant, twelfth, Trader Horn, 13th, Public Enemy, 18th.
		A list to which cinemanufacturers may have paid closer heed was compiled by Variety of the six pictures which drew the largest gross box office profits in 1931.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,743009,00.html (329 words)

	The Smiling Lieutenant (1931 b 89') (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Smiling Lieutenant (1931 b 89') (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu)
		Ernst Lubitsch directed this comedy based on an operetta by Jacobson and Dormann in which a charming officer loves a violinist but has to marry a princess.
		Though set in the mid-19th century, this comedy reflects the changing sexual mores of France in the acceptance of all-night dates that conclude with breakfast.
	www.san.beck.org.cob-web.org:8888 /MM/1931/SmilingLieutenant.html (393 words)

	The 1993 Fall Cinesation
		Director Ernst Lubitsch was so strong and Paramount was so desperate to ward off falling depression receipts that they allowed him to buck the current public apathy to movie musicals.
		The result, THE SMILING LIEUTENANT, is a delightful confection, filled with sparkling performances, a lovely score, and Maurice Chevalier at his Parisian best.
		Lubitsch remembers his silent film training and keeps dialogue to a minimum, allowing the visuals to subtly seduce the viewer.
	www.cinephiles.org /The_1993_Fall_Cinesation.html (2711 words)

	DVDBeaver.com - Article - Ten Favorite Offbeat Musicals by Jonathan Rosenbaum
		A controversy used to rage about whether this was “imitation Lubitsch with too many camera angles” (as Andrew Sarris once put it) or a lighthearted send-up of Ernst Lubitsch (as Tom Milne argued in his book on Mamoulian).
		Since the movie costars Maurice Chevalier and Jeanette MacDonald, the same leads as Lubitsch’s previous The Love Parade and The Smiling Lieutenant, and Lubitsch himself was production chief at Paramount when it was made, these issues can’t be resolved simply.
		But my own preference for this masterpiece over the Lubitsch films that influenced it comes easy, and not only because it’s appeared on DVD ahead of them.
	www.dvdbeaver.com /film/articles/10_offbeat_musicals.htm (1417 words)

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