公主艳史 Love Me Tonight (1932)

In 1931 Paramount gave Rouben Mamoulian the job of directing the musical Love Me Tonight. It had previously been an Ernst Lubitsch project, and he had done a lot of work on it

Mamoulian was the latest hot director with Paramount, and Lubitsch never liked to be upstaged. He had his own reputation to consider. A year or so later when he directed The Merry Widow - which had the same leading players - he had his opportunity to demonstrate how Mamoulian's scenes could have been done.

In Love Me Tonight we first see the leading lady Princess Jeanette (Jeanette MacDonald) when she is standing on a balcony of the family chateau singing "Isn't It Romantic". Everybody in a contemporary audience would have recognised her, and if not, her picture was plastered all over the foyer where it could hardly have been missed. A fine singer, quite pretty, although a little bit horsy with her rather lon…

Rouben Mamoulian导演歌舞片“Love Me Tonight”（1932），老搭档Maurice Chevalier与Jeanatte MacDonald。比刘别谦同时期电影技术好多了，用了当时好莱坞前所未见的zoom lens和慢镜头。对巴黎街市场景描述令人想起“城市交响曲”，还有concrete music。音乐巧妙联接不同人物、阶层、时空。浪漫喜剧。