Film Forum

U.S., 1929
Directed by Ernst Lubitsch
Starring Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald, Lillian Roth, Eugene Pallette 
Approx. 107 min.

“In all of Sylvania, there’s only one leg as good as this one,” boasts queen Jeanette MacDonald, uncovering one gam—“and that’s it!” she says, flashing the other. But even though count Maurice Chevalier is her “Dream Lover,” he still complains “nobody is using it now,” in Lubitsch’s first sound triumph.

4K restoration by Universal Pictures in collaboration with The Film Foundation. 35mm Silent Dupe Negative provided and preserved by the UCLA Film & Television Archive. Restoration services conducted by NBCUniversal StudioPost.

Presented with support from The Ada Katz Fund for Literature in Film

Reviews

“Made before the production code was inflicted, the film is rife with Lubitschian innuendo.”
– Dave Kehr

“The first truly cinematic screen musical in America.”
– Theodore Huff