This is one of those very rare remakes that's better than the original, although the same director had a hand in both. Lubitsch made THE MARRIAGE CIRCLE as a silent in 1924, which starred Adolphe Menjou, Florence Vidor, Monte Blue, Creighton Hale, and Marie Prevost. With the advent of
sound, he thought a musical version might work and he was right. Chevalier was signed and wanted Kay Francis and Carole Lombard as his costars (both of whom he had his Gallic eye on), but Lubitsch knew there might be a problem with that so he convinced Chevalier to accept MacDonald and Tobin. It
began with Cukor at the directorial helm and Lubitsch running all of Paramount's productio...
Released:
1932
Rated:
NR
Length:
80 mins