One Hour with You, 1932

Director: Ernst Lubitsch & George Cukor
Studio: Paramount
Academy Award Best Picture nominee 1933
Starring Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald, Charles Ruggles
IMDB Link:   One Hour with You

sez says ... This is a sweet treat: A simple sex farce with ever-so-likable characters. While vintage films can be good, generally I avoid those that feature music from the 30’s, but between the fun way Chevalier presents the material, the women’s beautiful gowns, the wildly stylish home furnishings --and then add scenes with rhyming dialogue, and you just can’t help but smile and go along for the ride. It is a racy, pre-code story—temptation, adultery, tit-for tat and the married couple are back in each others arms. Of course the husband’s adultery is presented as the real thing, and the wife’s is only an imagining of where things could go if she wanted. So the double standard stands durable. And, of special note is Charles Ruggles portrayal as ‘her’ suitor—he hams it up just right.

mjc says:  Chevalier blasts every set with his charismatic smile, washing each scene in luminous charm; Jeannette MacDonald remains one of the singers with a voice like fingernails on a chalkboard.