Love Me Tonight
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Love Me Tonight is a 1932 pre-Code musical comedy film starring Maurice Chevalier and Jeanette MacDonald, celebrated for its innovative use of sound and song integration in early Hollywood cinema.
Observed surface forms (1)
| Surface form | Occurrences |
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| Love Me Tonight (song) | 1 |
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| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
film
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musical comedy film ⓘ pre-Code film ⓘ |
| basedOn |
Le Tailleur au château
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play by Paul Armont and Léopold Marchand ⓘ |
| character |
Maurice Courtelin
NERFINISHED
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Princess Jeanette ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Victor Milner ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| director | Rouben Mamoulian ⓘ |
| distributor | Paramount Pictures ⓘ |
| editedBy | William Shea ⓘ |
| featuresSong |
Isn't It Romantic?
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surface form:
Isn’t It Romantic?
Love Me Tonight self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Love Me Tonight (song)
Lover ⓘ Mimi ⓘ |
| filmFormat | black-and-white film ⓘ |
| filmRatingEra |
Pre-Code Hollywood
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surface form:
pre-Code Hollywood
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| genre |
musical film
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romantic comedy film ⓘ |
| hasFilmTechnique |
montage sequences synchronized to music
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musical numbers integrated into dialogue ⓘ |
| historicalSignificance | early example of sophisticated film musical form ⓘ |
| leadActor | Maurice Chevalier ⓘ |
| leadActress | Jeanette MacDonald ⓘ |
| lyricsBy | Lorenz Hart NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| musicBy | Richard Rodgers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
innovative use of sound
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integration of songs into narrative ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| producer |
Adolph Zukor
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Ernst Lubitsch ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Paramount Pictures NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1932-08-18 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1932 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 96 ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
Ernst Vajda
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George Marion Jr. ⓘ Samuel Hoffenstein NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setInPeriod | contemporary to early 1930s ⓘ |
| setting |
French château
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Paris ⓘ |
| starring |
C. Aubrey Smith
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Charles Butterworth ⓘ Charles Ruggles NERFINISHED ⓘ Jeanette MacDonald ⓘ Maurice Chevalier ⓘ Myrna Loy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| title | Love Me Tonight self-link ⓘ |
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this entity surface form:
Love Me Tonight (song)