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.

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instanceOf film
musical comedy film
pre-Code film
basedOn Le Tailleur au château
play by Paul Armont and Léopold Marchand
character Maurice Courtelin NERFINISHED
Princess Jeanette
cinematographyBy Victor Milner
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
director Rouben Mamoulian
distributor Paramount Pictures
editedBy William Shea
featuresSong Isn't It Romantic?
surface form: Isn’t It Romantic?

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Lover
Mimi
filmFormat black-and-white film
filmRatingEra Pre-Code Hollywood
surface form: pre-Code Hollywood
genre musical film
romantic comedy film
hasFilmTechnique montage sequences synchronized to music
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
integration of songs into narrative
originalLanguage English
producer Adolph Zukor
Ernst Lubitsch
productionCompany Paramount Pictures NERFINISHED
releaseDate 1932-08-18
releaseYear 1932
runtimeMinutes 96
screenwriter Ernst Vajda
George Marion Jr.
Samuel Hoffenstein NERFINISHED
setInPeriod contemporary to early 1930s
setting French château
Paris
starring C. Aubrey Smith
Charles Butterworth
Charles Ruggles NERFINISHED
Jeanette MacDonald
Maurice Chevalier
Myrna Loy NERFINISHED
title Love Me Tonight self-link

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Lover introducedInFilm Love Me Tonight
Rouben Mamoulian notableWork Love Me Tonight
Love Me Tonight title Love Me Tonight self-link