The Merry Widow
About The Merry Widow
A prince from a small kingdom courts a wealthy widow to keep her money in the country.
Ernst Lubitsch's The Merry Widow is a 1934 comedy music film. Its themes are widow, pre-code, and musical.
Maurice Chevalier appears as Count Danilo, Jeanette MacDonald as Madame Sonia, Edward Everett Horton as Ambassador Popoff, and Una Merkel as Queen Dolores. It runs 99 minutes and was released in November 1934.
The screenplay is by Ernest Vajda and Samson Raphaelson.
Duck Soup, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, and Thumbelina make useful companions to The Merry Widow. TMDB voters put it at 6.8 out of 10 across 70 votes and it carries a NR rating.