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Monte Carlo is a american film of genre Comedy directed by Ernst Lubitsch released in USA on 27 august 1930 with Jack Buchanan
Monte Carlo (1930)
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Add to a movie listMonte Carlo is a 1930 American Pre-Code musical comedy film, directed by Ernst Lubitsch. It stars Jeanette MacDonald as Countess Helene Mara. The film is notable for the song "Beyond the Blue Horizon", which was written for the film and was performed by Jeanette MacDonald. The film was also hailed by critics as a masterpiece of the newly emerging musical genre. The screenplay was based on the Booth Tarkington novel Monsieur Beaucaire.
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Countess Helene Mara is engaged to be married to Prince Otto Von Liebenheim but leaves him at the altar. She flees on a train to Monte Carlo and checks into a hotel. When she arrives at the casino a count named Rudolph Falliere takes a liking to her and poses as a hairdresser whom she hires and falls in love with but could not marry if he is a commoner. Her fiance later arrives and takes her to an opera and she sees Rudolph there in one of the expensive seats indicating he is too wealthy to be a hairdresser. When he reveals to her that he is a count, she realises she can marry him.Actors
Jack Buchanan
(Count Rudolph Falliere / Rudy the Hairdresser)
Jeanette MacDonald
(Countess Helene Mara)
Claud Allister
(Prince Otto von Liebenheim)
Zasu Pitts
(Bertha)
Tyler Brooke
(Armand)
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