Enter Madame! (1934)

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Elissa Landi

Lisa Della Robbia

Cary Grant

Gerald Fitzgerald

Lynne Overman

Mr. Farnum

Sharon Lynn

Flora Preston
(as Sharon Lynne)

Michelette Burani

Bice

Paul Porcasi

Archimede

Adrian Rosley

Doctor

Cecilia Parker

Aline Chalmers

Frank Albertson

John Fitzgerald

Wilfred Hari

Tamamoto

Torben Meyer

Carlson

Harold Berquist

Bjorgenson

Diana Lewis

Operator

Richard Bonelli

Scorpia in 'La Tosca'

Ann Sheridan

Flora's Shipboard Friend
(as Clara Lou Sheridan)

Mildred Boothe

Trixie
(uncredited)

Jack Byron

Joe
(uncredited)

Wallis Clark

John H. Massey
(uncredited)

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Trivia
One of over 700 Paramount productions, filmed between 1929-49, which were sold to MCA/Universal in 1958 for television distribution, and have been owned and controlled by Universal ever since. Its earliest documented television presentation took place in Johnstown, Pennsylvania Monday 14 December 1959 on WJAC (Channel 6); thanks to the presence of a young Cary Grant (I), in one of his more or less forgotten, early efforts, it was eventually aired in San Francisco 20 January 1960 on KPIX (Channel 5), in Toledo 25 June 1960 on WTOL (Channel 11), in Grand Rapids 26 August 1960 on WOOD (Channel 8), in Cleveland 11 November 1960 on WJW (Channel 8), and in Chicago 12 December 1960 on WBBM (Channel 2). It was released on DVD 19 April 2016 as one of 18 titles in Universal's Cary Grant - the Vault Collection, and again as a single 12 October 2016 as part of the Universal Vault Series.

Goofs
Lynne Overman tells Elissa Landi that her fan is in the box on the right. He is in the box on the right from the point of view of the audience, but, since actors always give directions with reference to the stage, he should have said that her fan was on the left.

Quotes
Lisa Della Robbia: They say there are great, pitch black spaces between the stars. I think they are between people too.

Connections
Version of Enter Madame (1922)

Soundtracks
Cavalleria Rusticana
Music by Pietro Mascagni
Libretto by Guido Menasci and Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti

Cary Grant shows up at the opera whenever Elissa Landi is singing (voice provided by Nina Koshetz), so they get married. Yet Miss Landi is always performing, and Grant tires of only seeing his wife on stage, so he sues for divorce so he can wed Sharon Lynn.

It's certainly well performed under the direction of Elliot Nugent, but between the diva persona of Miss Landi's diva, and Grant being basically her support, my net reaction is underwhelming. There are no other stars; the hope, I suppose, was that these two could carry the picture. Paul Porcasi is amusing as her chef, Lynn Overman her manager, but it's mostly about people wanting egg in their beer. See if you can spot Ann Sheridan in a tiny role while she was still Clara Lou Sheridan.