One Hour with You

Lubitsch reunites Maurice Chevalier and Jeanette MacDonald, this time as a seemingly blissful couple whose marriage hits the skids when her flirtatious school chum comes on to her husband a bit too strong. Necking in the park at nighttime, husbands and wives having casual dalliances, and a butler telling his master, "I did so want to see you in tights!": it's one of Lubitsch's sauciest escapades and his final "pre-Code" musical.

United States
1932
78 minutes
Black & White
1.33:1
English

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Eclipse 8: Lubitsch Musicals

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4 Discs

$41.96

Cast & Credits

Cast

Maurice Chevalier: Dr. Andre Bertier
Jeanette MacDonald: Colette Bertier
Genevieve Tobin: Mitzi Olivier
Charles Ruggles: Adolph
Roland Young: Professor Olivier
Josephine Dunn: Mademoiselle Martel
Richard Carle: Detective Henri Dornier
Barbara Leonard: Mitzi’s maid
George Barbier: Police Commissioner

Credits

Director: Ernst Lubitsch
Assisted by: George Cukor
Producer: Ernst Lubitsch
Screenplay: Samson Raphaelson
From the play by: Lothar Schmidt
Cinematography: Victor Milner
Editing: William Shea
Art director: Hans Dreier
Music: Oscar Straus
Lyrics: Leo Robin
Interpolated music: Richard A. Whiting
Gowns: Travis Banton

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Victor Milner

Cinematographer

Though he may not be so well known today, cinematographer Victor Milner was a force during Hollywood’s golden age. Equally adept at the intimate and the epic, he lent visual character to both drawing-room comedies and picturesque outdoor westerns, and the list of directors he collaborated with reads like a who’s who of cinematic legends: Cecil B. DeMille, Victor Fleming, Ernst Lubitsch, Anthony Mann, Preston Sturges, Raoul Walsh, William Wellman, William Wyler. He was also one of the founding members of the prestigious, still active organization the American Society of Cinematographers, and served as its president from 1937 to 1939. Milner started his career in movies as a projectionist and a newsreel cameraman, and ended it as a nine-time Oscar nominee—and onetime winner, for DeMille’s 1934 megaproduction Cleopatra. His final nod from the Academy came for his stunning, psychologically acute vistas in Anthony Mann’s western The Furies.