The Merry Widow(Movie, 1934)

Name: The Merry Widow
Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance / Love
Released: 1934
Duration: T01:39:00
Rating: 3.5

1h 39min | Genres: Comedy, Music, Romance / Love

Rating: 3.5/5 (with 19 votes)

The Merry Widow is a 1934 film adaptation of the 1905 operetta of the same name by Franz Lehár. The film was directed and produced by Ernst Lubitsch starring Maurice Chevalier and Jeanette MacDonald with a supporting cast featuring Edward Everett Horton, Una Merkel, Sterling Holloway, Donald Meek, Jason Robards Sr. and Akim Tamiroff. A French-language version was produced at the same time and released in France the same year as La Veuve joyeuse with some but not all of the same cast (Chevalier, MacDonald, and Tamiroff appear in both ver... ()

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Awards & Nominations for The Merry Widow

Academy Award for Best Production Design nominated for: Academy Award for Best Production Design

About The Merry Widow

A prince from a small kingdom courts a wealthy widow to keep her money in the country.

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Production country: United States of America (USA)

Plays in: Europe

Made by: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Original language: English (EN)

Spoken languages: English (EN), French (FR)

Translated into 10 languages: Bulgarian (BG), German (DE), English (EN), Spanish (ES), French (FR), Italian (IT), Korean (KO), Portuguese (PT), Russian (RU), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)

Status: Released

Release date GR: 11/02/1934

Cast: Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald, Edward Everett Horton, Una Merkel, George Barbier, Minna Gombell, Sterling Holloway, Donald Meek, Herman Bing, Henry Armetta, Gino Corrado, Billy Gilbert, Rolfe Sedan, Akim Tamiroff, Jason Robards, Lane Chandler, Leonid Kinskey, Morgan Wallace, Richard Carle, Virginia Field, George J. Lewis, Kathleen Burke, George Magrill, Frank O'Connor, Lona Andre, Luana Walters, Frank Sheridan

Director: Ernst Lubitsch

Producer: Irving Thalberg, Ernst Lubitsch

Screenwriter: Marcel Achard, Ernst Lubitsch, Ernest Vajda, Samson Raphaelson, Henri Meilhac

Film Editor: Frances Marsh

Director of Photography: Oliver T. Marsh

Composer: Herbert Stothart

Costume designer: Adrian

Production Designer: Cedric Gibbons

Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):

"La veuve joyeuse"

Keywords: pre-code, musical, widow

Color: Black & White (B/W)

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