Love Me Tonight
Love Me Tonight is a 1932 American pre-Code musical comedy film produced and directed by Rouben Mamoulian, with music by Rodgers and Hart. It stars Maurice Chevalier as a tailor who poses as a nobleman and Jeanette MacDonald as a princess with whom he falls in love. It also stars Charles Ruggles as a penniless nobleman, along with Charles Butterworth and Myrna Loy as members of his family.
Plot
The story describes an encounter between a Parisian tailor named Maurice Courtelin (Chevalier) and a family of local aristocrats. These include Vicomte Gilbert de Varèze (Ruggles), who owes Maurice a large amount of money for tailoring work; Gilbert's uncle the Duc d'Artelines (C. Aubrey Smith), the family patriarch; d'Artelines' man-hungry niece Valentine (Loy); and his other 22-year-old niece, Princesse Jeanette (MacDonald), who has been a widow for three years. D'Artelines has been unable to find Jeanette a new husband of suitable age and rank. The household also includes three aunts and an ineffectual suitor the Comte de Savignac (Butterworth).
Cast
- Bert Roach
- Blanche Friderici
- C. Aubrey Smith
- Carrie Daumery
- Cecil Cunningham
- Charles Butterworth
- Charles Ruggles
- Clarence Wilson
- Edgar Norton
- Elizabeth Patterson
- Ethel Griffies
- Ethel Wales
- Florence Wix
- George "Gabby" Hayes
- Herbert Mundin
- Jeanette MacDonald
- Joseph Cawthorn
- Mary Doran
- Maurice Chevalier
- Myrna Loy
- Robert Greig
- Rolfe Sedan
More details
author | George Marion, Jr. Samuel Hoffenstein Waldemar Young |
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contentLocation | Paris |
director | Rouben Mamoulian |
editor | Rouben Mamoulian William Shea |
genre | comedy |
keywords | aristocracy aristocrat clothe force hear patriarch rid travel true identity |
musicBy | Richard Rodgers |
producer | Rouben Mamoulian |
publisher | Paramount Pictures |
theme | musical comedy |