Viennese Nights (1930)

Directed by

Alan Crosland

Genre

musical film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 56m

Rating

6.0 of 10 from 2 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young Viennese couple falls in love and faces challenges from class differences and a rival suitor. The story follows their romance through songs and operetta-style performances set against the backdrop of old Vienna.

lightheartedromanticnostalgicold-fashionedwhimsicalmusicalsentimentalbittersweet

What happens

Viennese Nights is a 1930 American all-talking pre-Code musical operetta film directed by Alan Crosland and starring Alexander Gray, Vivienne Segal, Walter Pidgeon, Jean Hersholt, Bela Lugosi and Louise Fazenda. It was photographed entirely in Technicolor and released by Warner Bros. Pictures. Viennese Nights was the first original operetta written especially for the screen by Oscar Hammerstein II and Sigmund Romberg. It was filmed in March and April 1930, before anyone realized the extent of the economic hardships that would arrive with the Great Depression, which had begun in the autumn of the previous year. Although not a box office hit in the United States, the film had long box office runs in Britain and Australia. It is one of the earliest sound films to have a short pre-credit sequence. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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