The Merry Widow (1934)

Synopsis

Cast & Credits

• Cast

  • • Count Danilo

      Maurice Chevalier

    • Sonia/'Fifi'

      Jeanette Macdonald

    • Ambassador Popoff

      Edward Everett Horton

    • Queen Dolores

      Una Merkel

    • King Achmed II

      George Barbier

    • Marcelle

      Minna Gombell

    • Lulu

      Ruth Channing

    • Mishka, the orderly

      Sterling Holloway

    • valet

      Donald Meek

    • Zizipoff

      Herman Bing

    • [Turk]

      Henry Armetta

    • [maid]

      Barbara Leonard

    • [manager of Maxim's]

      Akim Tamiroff

    • [Adamovitch]

      Lucien Prival

    • [Sonia's maid]

      Luana Walters

    • [Sonia's maid]

      Sheila Bromley

    • [Sonia's maid]

      Caryl Lincoln

    • [Sonia's maid]

      Edna Waldron

    • [Sonia's maid]

      Lona Andre

    • [Maxim's girl]

      Patricia Farley

    • [Maxim's girl]

      Shirley Chambers

    • [Maxim's girl]

      Maria Troubetskoy

    • [Maxim's girl]

      Eleanor Hunt

    • [Maxim's girl]

      Jeanne Hart

    • [Maxim's girl]

      Dorothy Wilson

    • [Maxim's girl]

      Barbara Barondess

    • [Maxim's girl]

      Dorothy Granger

    • [Maxim's girl]

      Jill Dennett

    • [Maxim's girl]

      Mary Jane Halsey

    • [Maxim's girl]

      Peggy Watts

    • [Maxim's girl]

      Dorothy Dehn

    • [Maxim's girl]

      Connie Lamont

    • [escort]

      Charles Requa

    • [escort]

      George Lewis

    • [escort]

      Tyler Brooke

    • [escort]

      John Merkyl

    • [escort]

      Cosmo Kyrle Bellew

    • [policeman]

      Roger Gray

    • [policeman]

      Christian J. Frank

    • [policeman]

      Otto Fries

    • [policeman]

      George Magrill

    • [policeman]

      John Roach

    • [waiter]

      Gino Corrado

    • [waiter]

      Perry Ivins

    • [prisoner]

      Virginia Field

    • [ambassador]

      George Baxter

    • [dancer]

      Paul Ellis

    • [Sheppard]

      Leonid Kinskey

    • [newspaper woman]

      Evelyn Selbie

    • [lackey]

      Wedgewood Nowell

    • [defence attorney]

      Richard Carle

    • [prosecuting attorney]

      Morgan Wallace

    • [judge]

      Frank Sheridan

    • [doorman]

      Arthur Byron

    • [wardrobe mistress]

      Claudia Coleman

    • [excited Chinaman]

      Lee Tin

    • [animal woman]

      Nora Cecil

    • [Orthodox priest]

      Tom Francis

    • [nondescript priest]

      Winter Hall

    • [newsboy]

      Matty Roubert

    • [jailer]

      Ferdinand Munier

    • [fat lackey]

      Dewey Robinson

    • [fat lackey]

      Russ Powell

    • [fat lackey]

      Billy Gilbert

    • [drunk]

      Arthur Houseman

    • [drunk]

      John Skins Miller

    • [gypsy leader]

      Hector V. Sarno

    • [practical violinist]

      Jan Rubini

    • [arresting officer]

      Jason Robards Sr

    • [head waiter]

      Albert Pollet

    • [Gabrielovitsch]

      Rolfe Sedan

    • [goatman]

      Jacques Lory

    • [tenor in 'Vilia' number]

      Allan Rogers

    • [gypsy violinist]

      Bella Loblov

    • [soldier reporting to Popoff]

      Lane Chandler

    • [flirt at Maxim's]

      Erik Rhodes

• Credits

  • Direction:

    • Director

      Ernst Lubitsch

    • [Assistant Director]

      Joseph M. Newman

    Production:

    • Production Company

      Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Corporation

    • [Producer]

      Irving Thalberg

    Writing:

    • Written by

      Ernest Vajda

    • Written by

      Samson Raphaelson

    • [Contributing Writer]

      Ernst Lubitsch

    • [Contributing Writer]

      Lorenz Hart

    • [Contributing Writer]

      Anita Loos

    • Based on operetta 'Die lustige Witve'

      Franz Lehár

    • Based on operetta 'Die lustige Witve'

      Victor Leon

    • Based on operetta 'Die lustige Witve'

      Leo Stein

    Photography:

    • Photographer

      Oliver T. Marsh

    • [2nd Camera]

      Lester H. White

    • [Assistant Camera]

      Johnny Greer

    • [Gaffer]

      Ted Wurtenberg

    • [Grip]

      Art Spang

    • [Grip]

      Harry Reid

    Editing:

    • Film Editor

      Frances Marsh

    Design:

    • Art Director

      Cedric Gibbons

    • [Art Director]

      Gabriel Scognamillo

    • Associate Art Director

      Fredric Hope

    • Associate Art Director

      Edwin B. Willis

    • [Set Designer]

      Fred Gabourie

    • [Set Dresser]

      Henry Grace

    • [Props]

      Bert Sperling

    • [Stageman]

      F.D. Raymond

    • [Stageman]

      Carl Wdest

    Costumes:

    • Miss MacDonald's Gowns by

      Adrian

    • Wardrobe

      Ali Hubert

    Music:

    • Music

      Franz Lehár

    • Lyrics

      Richard Rodgers

    • Lyrics

      Lorenz Hart

    • Additional Lyrics

      Gus Kahn

    • [Orchestrator]

      Charles Maxwell

    • [Orchestrator]

      Paul Marquardt

    • [Orchestrator]

      Leonid Raab

    • Music Adaptation

      Herbert Stothart

    Choreography:

    • Dances Directed by

      Albertina Rasch

    • [Waltz Instructor for Miss MacDonald]

      Bob Spencer

    Sound:

    • Recording Director

      Douglas Shearer

    • [Sound Mixer]

      James Brock

    • [Sound Mixer]

      Mike Mclaughlin