Film Forum

U.S., 1931
Directed by Ernst Lubitsch
Starring Maurice Chevalier, Claudette Colbert
Approx. 88 min. 35mm.

Roguish Maurice Chevalier loves violinist Claudette Colbert, but gets trapped into marrying checkers-playing princess Miriam Hopkins. But things look up when good sport Colbert musically advises frumpish Hopkins to “Jazz Up Your Lingerie.”

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

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