The Chocolate Soldier (1941)
- Directed by
- Roy Del Ruth
- Genre
- comedy film, musical film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 42m
- Rating
- 6.7 of 10 from 9 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
Two recently married opera singers get into romantic and professional misunderstandings. They perform musical numbers from an operetta based on a well-known play. It is a musical comedy from the 1940s.
lightheartedplayfulromanticbreezywhimsicaltheatricalmelodic
What happens
The Chocolate Soldier is a 1941 American musical film directed by Roy Del Ruth. It uses original music from the Oscar Straus 1908 operetta of the same name, which was based on George Bernard Shaw’s 1894 play Arms and the Man. Unable to come to terms with Shaw, the studio used a story to which it already had rights: the Ferenc Molnár play The Guardsman (originally Testőr). The plot centers on the romantic misunderstandings and professional conflicts between two recently married opera singers, played by Metropolitan Opera star Risë Stevens (in her film debut) and Nelson Eddy, who perform excerpts from the operetta during the film. This screenplay was written by Leonard Lee and Keith Winter. The Guardsman—a huge hit on Broadway in 1924— was brought to the screen in 1931, with Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne reprising their stage roles as married actors. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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