Ernst Lubitsch - (Movie Promo) TCM Spotlight, December 2012

Smiling Lieutenant, The (1931) -- (Movie Clip) Toujours l'Amour In The Army

As exemplary as an Ernst Lubitsch opening can be, Viennese soldier Niki (Maurice Chevalier), visited twice but not seen, then opening with a song by Oscar Straus and Clifford Grey, in The Smiling Lieutenant, 1931.

Smiling Lieutenant, The (1931) -- (Movie Clip) How Do You Spell Flausenthurn?

Summoned to account for the crime of smiling at the visiting princess (Miriam Hopkins), Viennese soldier Niki (Maurice Chevalier) rolls the dice with her father the king (George Barbier), in Ernst Lubitsch's The Smiling Lieutenant, 1931.

Smiling Lieutenant, The (1931) -- (Movie Clip) Just Picture Your Wife

Married soldier Max (Charlie Ruggles) brings colleague Niki (Maurice Chevalier) to the Vienna biergarten where he's fallen for pretty violinist Franzi (Claudette Colbert) early in Ernst Lubitsch's The Smiling Lieutenant, 1931.

Smiling Lieutenant, The (1931) -- (Movie Clip) Live For Today

On the very night they met, Viennese soldier Niki (Maurice Chevalier) has wooed violinist Franzi (Claudette Colbert, in a rare vocal performance) to his pad, where they engage in a song by Oscar Straus and Clifford Grey, in Ernst Lubitsch's The Smiling Lieutenant, 1931.