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THE MERRY WIDOW in 35mm
Tuesday, May 19
12:15 8:00
U.S., 1934
Directed by Ernst Lubitsch
Starring Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald
Approx. 99 min. 35mm.
Chevalier-MacDonald-Lubitsch redux, for the ultimate production of the Lehár operetta, out-lavishing even Von Stroheim’s silent version, and complete with streamlined lyrics by Lorenz Hart, hilarious support from Edward Everett Horton and Una Merkel, and the grandest of grand balls.
Presented with support from The Robert Jolin Osborne Endowed Fund for American Classic Cinema of the 1930s, ’40s, and ’50s and The Ada Katz Fund for Literature in Film
Reviews
“The last and finest of Ernst Lubitsch’s musicals.”
– Dave Kehr