The Big Pond (1930); 6

A tour guide in Venice romances a visiting American tourist whose father owns a chewing-gum factory back in the U.S. She sets out to convince her skeptical father to bring the tour guide to America and give him a job in the plant.
(72 mins.) Released 1930-05-03
Director: Hobart Henley
Stars: Maurice Chevalier, Claudette Colbert, George Barbier, Marion Ballou

comedy, music, romance

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0020690/

originally posted 26 Oct 2017 04:33

watched bad print here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCAksyUR2qs

MC sings You Brought a New Kind of Love to Me very early in the film. This is the song the Marx Bros spoof in Monkey Business (1931) in the passport checking scene. Here it's "their song" and repeated a lot. MC sings one other; so it's not really a musical, but it's on the cusp. Enjoyable. Makes sense that they did another (The Smiling Lieutenant, 1931, above).

Paramount, dir. Henley; 6