One Hour with You (1932)
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- Synopsis:
- Andre and Colette have been married for three years when temptation pays a visit. Colette's schoolmate Mitzi stops by and takes a liking to Andre. While Mitzi's advances toward Andre intensify, Colette is being romantically pursued by Andre's good friend Adolph. Colette, oblivious to Mitzi's intentions, assumes her husband's infidelities are focused elsewhere. Similarly, Andre doesn't suspect his pal's advances.
- Actors:
- Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald, Genevieve Tobin, Charles Ruggles, Roland Young, Josephine Dunn, Richard Carle, Barbara Leonard, George Barbier, Sheila Bromley, Jack Byron, Jack Chefe, Lita Chevret, Charles Coleman, George Davis, Bill Elliott, Bess Flowers, Jack Ford, Charles Judels, Florine McKinney
- Directors:
- Ernst Lubitsch, George Cukor
- Writers:
- Lothar Schmidt, Samson Raphaelson
- Genres:
- Classics, Music & Musicals, Performing Arts, Romance
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Sparkling Lubitsch. - One Hour with You review by Steve
In American films in the thirties, comedy was a courtship dance that ended at the altar. For Berlin émigré Ernst Lubitsch, that's where it started. Romance was a masque of deception, intrigue and impulse. His musicals in this period were set in a sort of Paris of the mind. In the context of early sound Hollywood films they were alien, exotic and a revolution...
...Until 1934 when censorship closed them down. Maurice Chevalier and Jeanette MacDonald are happily married. So happy that they talk in rhyming couplets and break into song. Their relationship is so fertile with innuendo that it's their matrimony that seems salacious, and the marriage-go-round of their friends which appears the dull convention.
In the face of such conjugal joy, what can Genevieve Tobin and Roland Young do but try to break them up? Her, by seducing Maurice, Roland by exploiting this dalliance to divorce his unfaithful wife. The suggestiveness of this film is astonishing, and hilarious.
Maurice has a unique charisma, addressing the camera directly and audaciously, singing in his boulevardier style amazing songs of sex and infidelity. Like Oh That Mitzi! and What Would You Do? Lubitsch's films are artful, gravity free celebrations of the great game of love and they established the conventions of the sophisticated comedy.