The Great Lover

1931
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1 Std. 11 Min.

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Irene Dunne and Adolphe Menjou in The Great Lover (1931)

Füge eine Handlung in deiner Sprache hinzuJean Paurel is a womanizing opera star, who agrees to help Diana Page her career in order to take advantage of her. But instead he finds falling in love with her. To complicate matters, Jean... Alles lesenJean Paurel is a womanizing opera star, who agrees to help Diana Page her career in order to take advantage of her. But instead he finds falling in love with her. To complicate matters, Jean's understudy turns out to be Diana's old flame, and tries to rekindle their relationship.Jean Paurel is a womanizing opera star, who agrees to help Diana Page her career in order to take advantage of her. But instead he finds falling in love with her. To complicate matters, Jean's understudy turns out to be Diana's old flame, and tries to rekindle their relationship.

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Adolphe Menjou

Jean Paurel

Irene Dunne

Diana Page

Ernest Torrence

Potter

Neil Hamilton

Carlo Joneino

Olga Baclanova

Mme. Savarova
(as Baclanova)

Cliff Edwards

Finny

Hale Hamilton

Stapleton

Roscoe Ates

Rosco
(as Rosco Ates)

Herman Bing

Losseck

Elsa Janssen

Mme. Neumann Baumbach
(as Else Janssen)

Lilian Bond

Mrs. Loring
(Nicht genannt)

Mary Carlisle

Blonde Autograph Seeker
(Nicht genannt)

Carrie Daumery

Opera Attendee in Box
(Nicht genannt)

Sherry Hall

Stapleton's Secretary
(Nicht genannt)

Larry Steers

Diana's Dockside Boyfriend
(Nicht genannt)

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The play opened on Broadway in New York City, New York, USA on 10 November 1915 and closed in June 1916 after 245 performances. The opening night cast included playwright Leo Ditrichstein, Cora Witherspoon and William Ricciardi, who was also in the 1932 Broadway revival.

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Diana: I'm sorry if I missed anything in life that would make me a better artist. Oh, I know I need training and help and advice. Well, there's nothing I wouldn't do.
Paurel: Nothing?
Diana: Nothing!

Verbindungen
Version of The Great Lover (1920)

Soundtracks
Romeo and Juliet Overture
(1869) (uncredited)
Written by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Played during the opening credits and at the end

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Opera stars and their groupies

Back in those early days of sound all the studios bought up whatever they could in the way of scripts. The Great Lover had been a play produced on Broadway by George M. Cohan and Sam Harris back during World War I years, but as the background is opera you will not hear a note of Cohan's in the story.

As those early sound days also brought a glut of musical films MGM had Irene Dunne playing a young opera ingenue who falls under the spell of womanizing opera star Adolph Menjou. Menjou certainly has his share of opera groupies as we see in the film. But he falls for her and has a hand in bringing her career along just as his is going into decline. A little bit of Maytime is also present here.

More than just a few elements of the many versions of A Star Is Born are found in The Great Lover. Also here is Neil Hamilton a young opera singer also interested in Dunne and the great Olga Baclanova from the Russian Art Theater. Only Dunne needed no dubbing for her part.

An interesting old chestnut, I doubt we'll see a remake though.