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Love Me Tonight Overview:

Love Me Tonight (1932) was a Comedy - Musical Film directed by Rouben Mamoulian and produced by Rouben Mamoulian.

Love Me Tonight was inducted into the National Film Registry in 1990.

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Love Me Tonight (1932)

By 4 Star Film Fan on Aug 31, 2016 From 4 Star Films

This is unequivocally the age of sound! That’s what this film proclaims from the rooftops with its symphony of syncopation as the world of Paris awakens from its slumber. It’s opening rhythms are pure ingenuity and the glorious unfoldings never ceases for the rest of the cheery productio... Read full article

Love Me Tonight (1932)

By 4 Star Film Fan on Aug 31, 2016 From 4 Star Films

This is unequivocally the age of sound! That’s what this film proclaims from the rooftops with its symphony of syncopation as the world of Paris awakens from its slumber. Its opening rhythms are pure ingenuity and the glorious unfoldings never cease for the rest of the cheery production. In it... Read full article

One year, one film: 1932 – Love Me Tonight

By Lindsey on May 3, 2015 From The Motion Pictures

One year, one film: 1932 The film: Love Me Tonight, dir. Rouben Mamoulian starring Jeanette MacDonald and Maurice Chevalier Rating: Recommended | Highly Recommended | MUST-SEE (Image via Bob’s Movies) Music and romance meet in this lovely film, starring the very talented Maurice Chevalier an... Read full article

The Fabulous Films of the 1930s - Love Me Tonight (1932)

By FlickChick on Apr 28, 2015 From A Person in the Dark

This is my entry in the "Fabulous Films of the '30s" Blogathon, hosted by the Classic Movie Blog Association. Click HERE to view more fabulous posts about that fabulous decade and to earn more about this article's participation in an eBook for your reading pleasure. LOVE ME TONIGHT (1932) ... Read full article

Pre-Code Blogathon: "Love Me Tonight," or Some People Call Me Maurice

By David on Apr 1, 2015 From The Man on the Flying Trapeze

This is part of the Pre-Code Blogathon sponsored by Danny at Pre-Code.com and Karen at Shadows and Satin. Please visit either and/or both of them for more offerings. The 1932 film "Love Me Tonight" lets you know you are in for something special from the very beginning: </embed> You haven't he... Read full article

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Love Me Tonight Quotes:

Vicomte Gilbert de Vareze: [after the Princess has fainted] Could you go for a doctor?
Countess Valentine: YES... bring him right in!
Princess Jeanette: What are you doing now?
Maurice Courtelin: I'm thinking. I'm thinking of you without these clothes.
Princess Jeanette: Open your eyes at once!
Maurice Courtelin: Oh no, pardon madam. With different clothes. Smart clothes.
Count de Savignac: I fell flat on my flute.
Princess Jeanette: Do you ever think of anything but men?
Countess Valentine: Oh, yes! Schoolboys.
Princess Jeanette: Well, I was just about to go to bed.
Count de Savignac: Oh, wait, I'll join you!
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Love Me Tonight Facts
One of over 700 Paramount Productions, filmed between 1929 and 1949, which were sold to MCA/Universal in 1958 for television distribution, and have been owned and controlled by Universal ever since.
According to her autobiography, Myrna Loy was originally going to wear white empire-style dress for the party sequence, but Jeanette MacDonald was jealous of how she looked insisted that she had to wear it herself instead. Loy surrendered the dress, but then went down the to the costume room and, with a friend's help, put together the black lace outfit she wears in the final film. She stole the scene.
For its post Production Code re-release (after 1934), this film was trimmed down to 96 minutes. Those missing minutes have never been restored and are presumed lost.
This film was selected to the National Film Registry, Libary of Congress, in 1990.
Among scenes and dialogue commonly deleted by local censors were references to the "virgin spring"; the scene of the Princess's examination by the physician; and Maurice taking measurements of the princess. In 1937, letters from Joseph I. Breen of the AMPP to Paramount indicate that Breen advised against the re-issue of the film because he felt that the severe editing required to pass the censors would ruin the film. In a 1949 letter, Breen approved a re-release with the following deletions: Any reference to "virgin springs"; the song "A Woman Needs Something Like That"; and the scene of Myrna Loy in a "transparent nightgown." According to a memo in the file, the four-reel re-release was unsuccessful
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