The Smiling Lieutenant is a
1932 film nominated for the
Academy Award for Best Picture. It was written by
Jacques Battaille-Henri[?],
Ernst Lubitsch,
Samson Raphaelson[?] and
Ernest Vajda[?], from the operetta
Ein Walzertraum, by
Felix Dormann[?] and
Leopold Jacobson[?], which in turn was based on the novel
Nux der Prinzgemahl by
Hans Müller[?]. It was directed by Lubitsch.
The movie stars Maurice Chevalier, Claudette Colbert, Miriam Hopkins, Charles Ruggles[?] and George Barbier. It is a romantic comedy concerning the love of a Princess for a soldier, and the love of the soldier for another woman.