Basically each week has a pre-selected theme with a list or a genre or a set of filmmakers from which each person doing the challenge can choose a film to watch. Claudette Colbert Ernst Lubitsch Maurice Chevalier Miriam Hopkins The Smiling LieutenantĪs I get back into the groove of moviewatching, I decided I was ready to take on this challenge a Facebook friend pointed me to on Letterboxd. The plot thickens when Nikki winks at Franzie while on duty as an entourage from a neighboring country drives through and the princess Anna (Miriam Hopkins) thinks he was winking at her and soon wants to marry him. Instead I went for a Pre-Code Lubitsch/Chevalier musical I hadn’t seen.Ĭhevalier plays Nikki, a lieutenant in the Austrian army who’s something of a womanizer (his opening song, sung direct to camera, talks about how it’s “toujours l’amour in the army” and how much the ladies enjoy his ra-ta-ta-ta-ta, a double meaning for a trumpet fanfare), until he meets Franzie (Claudette Colbert), a violinist who quickly dumps Charles Ruggles in favor of Chevalier. We’re totally in my wheelhouse doing 1930s musicals, so much so that I had to go much more obscure than the Fred/Ginger and Busby Berkeley films many other Challengers are doing (though if you haven’t seen those, that’s absolutely the way to go). The whole list of films I’m planning to watch is here.įilm I Chose: The Smiling Lieutenant (1931), directed by Ernst Lubitsch This is film 2 for the Letterboxd Season Challenge.
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