Monte Carlo (1930 film)
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| Directed by | Ernst Lubitsch |
| Produced by | Ernst Lubitsch |
| Written by | Ernest Vajda Hans Müller Booth Tarkington Evelyn Greenleaf Sutherland |
| Starring | Jack Buchanan Jeanette MacDonald Claud Allister |
| Music by | W. Franke Harling |
| Cinematography | Victor Milner |
| Editing by | Merrill G. White |
| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
| Release date(s) | 1930 |
| Running time | 90 min. |
| Country |  United States |
| Language | English |
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Monte Carlo is a 1930 Musical comedy film directed by Ernst Lubitsch. It stars Jeanette MacDonald as Countess Helene Mara. The film is also notable for the song "Beyond the Blue Horizon," which was written for this film and was performed by Jeanette MacDonald. The film was also hailed by critics as a masterpiece of the newly emerging musical genre.
[edit] Synopsis
Countess Helene Mara is engaged to be married to Prince Otto Von Seibenheim but leaves him at the altar. She flees on a train to Monte Carlo and checks into a hotel. When she arrives at the casino a count named Rudolph Falliere takes a liking to her and poses as a hairdresser whom she hires and falls in love with but could not marry if he is a commoner. Her fiance later arrives and takes her to an opera and she sees Rudolph there in one of the expensive seats indicating he is too wealthy to be a hairdresser. When he reveals to her that he is a count, she realises she can marry him.
[edit] Songs
The songs in the film were written by Richard Whiting and W. Franke Harling, with uncredited music by Karl Hajos, Herman Hand, Sigmund Krumgold, and John Leipold. The best-known song in the film is "Beyond the Blue Horizon" by Richard Whiting and Franke Harling with lyrics by Leo Robin. The song became an immediate hit record for Jeanette MacDonald on the film's release and again in the 1960's when it was covered by Lou Christie.
Other songs in the film are:
- "Give Me A Moment Please"
- "Always in All Ways"
- "She'll Love Me and Like It"
- "Days of Days"
- "Trimmin' the Women"
- "Whatever It Is, It's Grand"
[edit] External links
- Monte Carlo at Allmovie
- Monte Carlo at the Internet Movie Database
- Monte Carlo at Rotten Tomatoes
- Monte Carlo at the TCM Movie Database
