Ben Mankiewicz Intro - Marianne (1929)

Marianne (1929) -- (Movie Clip) Au Revoir, Mon Cheri!

Opening with the mobilization of France in the Great War, George Baxter is local Andre, Marion Davies his sweetheart and the title character, in her first talking feature, beginning in French, no less, in MGM’s Marianne, 1929.

Marianne (1929) -- (Movie Clip) Hinky Dinky Parlez Vous

After a montage indicating many years of war, Marion Davies (title character) in her French country village is more interested in her pig than in the bunch of American doughboys arriving, Cliff Edwards as Soapy, Benny Rubin as Sam, and Lawrence Gray as soon-smitten Stagg, in Marianne, 1929.

Marianne (1929) -- (Movie Clip) I'm A War Orphan Too!

The American soldiers (Cliff Edwards, Benny Rubin, and Lawrence Gray as the more ambitious Stagg) have finagled some food from French single-gal innkeeper Marion Davies (title character), whose fiancè hasn’t been heard from in years, and who begins to thaw a little, in Marianne, 1929.