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One Hour with You Overview:

One Hour with You (1932) was a Comedy - Musical Film directed by Ernst Lubitsch and George Cukor (uncredited) and produced by Ernst Lubitsch.

SYNOPSIS

Lubitsch improves on his 1924 silent The Marriage Circle with this Chevalier vehicle interspersed with song and punctuated with humorous asides to the audience. Chevalier is an amorous Parisian doctor happily married to MacDonald, though beset by the advances of his wife's best friend (Tobin). When her husband's suspicions are aroused, he hires a detective and discovers his wife's appointment with Chevalier. The doctor tells his wife about the situation and she decides to have an affair with Ruggles, after which they agree never to stray again.

(Source: available at Amazon AMC Classic Movie Companion).

Academy Awards 1931/32 --- Ceremony Number 5 (source: AMPAS)

AwardRecipientResult
Best PictureParamount PublixNominated
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One Hour with You BlogHub Articles:

One Hour With You (1931): Jeanette MacDonald and Maurice Chevalier

By 4 Star Film Fan on May 11, 2022 From 4 Star Films

Ah, Spring in Paris! The local gendarmerie is intent on cleaning up the parks of couples canoodling. Among them are Andre Bertier (Maurice Chevalier) and his gal pal Colette (Jeanette MacDonald). But it’s perfectly decent. As they sing, later in bed together, “what a little thing like a ... Read full article

One Hour with You

By Alyson on Oct 26, 2010 From The Best Picture Project

This has got to be the most charming little film of the 1930’s I’ve encountered yet. In One Hour With You we meet a young, happily married couple: Andre (Maurice Chevalier) and Colette (Jeanette MacDonald).  It’s summarized (partially in song) how happy they are and how great marriage is.  T... Read full article

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One Hour with You Quotes:

Adolph: You have a right to be wrong. You're a woman. Women are born to be wrong. I like my women wrong!
Professor Olivier: When I married her, she was a brunette. Now you can't believe anything she says.
Professor Olivier: In Switzerland they have a very peculiar law. When a husband shoots his wife, they put him in jail.
Mitzi Olivier: I'll be waiting in a taxi on the next corner. Five minutes.
Dr. Andre Bertier: Impossible.
Mitzi Olivier: Ten minutes.
Dr. Andre Bertier: Ridiculous.
Mitzi Olivier: All right, fifteen minutes.
Dr. Andre Bertier: Positively maybe.
Dr. Andre Bertier: Madame! You may think I'm a coward. I am!
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One Hour with You Facts
The title song was later adapted as the theme song for Eddie Cantor's radio program.
Even though it was the pre-Hays Code era, it was one of the few films of that time to show a married couple in the same bed together.
A French-language version _Une heure près de toi_, ("One More Hour With You") was filmed simultaneously. Maurice Chevalier and Jeanette MacDonald (who spoke French fluently) played the same parts as in the English version, and Lili Damita replaced Genevieve Tobin.
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.
This film is the second adaptation by Lubitsch of play in three acts by Lothar Schmidt (born Goldschmidt), which premiered in Munich in 1909.
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