One Hour with You (1932)
Directed by George Cukor / Ernst Lubitsch
Genres - Musical, Romance |
Sub-Genres - Musical Comedy, Operetta, Sophisticated Comedy |
Release Date - Mar 23, 1932 (USA - Unknown), Mar 23, 1932 (USA) |
Run Time - 80 min. |
Countries - United States |
MPAA Rating - NR
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Synopsis by Hal Erickson
A musical remake of The Marriage Circle (1924), One Hour with You stars Maurice Chevalier as a Parisian doctor and Jeanette MacDonald as his loving wife. Chevalier is scrupulously faithful, much to the chagrin of his lovely female patients. But when MacDonald's best friend Genevieve Tobin insists upon being treated by Dr. Chevalier, it looks to many of those concerned that Tobin may succeed where the other willing ladies failed. The misunderstandings and reconciliations of the plotline are playfully staged with deliberate artificiality by director Ernst Lubitsch: Characters speak in rhymed couplets, Parisian gendarmes issue orders to their minions to the beat of a ticking clock, and Chevalier regularly talks directly to the audience. One Hour With You is a tuneful confection which is just as refreshing today as it was sixty years ago.
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doctor, flirtation, love-triangle, marriage, extramarital-affair, France, friendship, love, misunderstanding, patient [medical], private-detective, promise, reconciliation, romance, sweetheart, wife, evidence, musical [play]
