The Smiling Lieutenant ( 1931 ) is an American film directed by Ernst Lubitsch, starring Maurice Chevalier and Claudette Colbert, and released by Paramount Pictures.

She sang in her role opposite Maurice Chevalier in the Ernst Lubitsch musical The Smiling Lieutenant ( 1931 ), and was admired by critics for her ability to shrewdly play character role opposite the Miriam Hopkins.

Replacing Maurice Chevalier, who was returning to Paris, Cantor joined Chase and Sanborn on September 13, 1931.

He was awarded the Prix Montyon in 1882 and was appointed a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour in 1884, with Grand Cross in 1931.

According to the audio commentary on the 1931 film Tabu, she was based on Anne Chevalier, an actress in that film.

Some of the gags from I'll Say She Is were worked into the lobby scene in The Cocoanuts ( 1929 ), and a bit involving a series of Maurice Chevalier imitations was incorporated into the script of Monkey Business ( 1931 ).

In 1931, she starred opposite Clark Gable in Possessed.

He also starred in The Bat Whispers ( 1930 ) and Corsair ( 1931 ), both directed by West.

) Soon afterward, he starred in another MGM musical film, New Moon, opposite Grace Moore and The Cuban Love Song ( 1931 ), with the Mexican Spitfire, Lupe Vélez.

He starred in extravagant early Technicolor musicals, including The Bride of the Regiment ( 1930 ), Sweet Kitty Bellairs ( 1930 ), Viennese Nights ( 1930 ) and Kiss Me Again ( 1931 ).

Fleming's version of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ( 1941 ), with Spencer Tracy, was generally rated below Rouben Mamoulian's 1931 Pre-Code version, which had starred Fredric March.

* Stephen Boyd ( 1931 – 1977 ) — starred in Ben-Hur ( 1959 ), Fantastic Voyage ( 1966 ) and many other films, was born in nearby Whitehouse and lived in Glengormley.

The chilling German film M ( 1931 ) directed by Fritz Lang, starred Peter Lorre ( in his first film role ) as a criminal deviant who preys on children.

Carnera appeared in a short film in 1931 and had a role as himself in 1933 movie The Prizefighter and the Lady, which starred Max Baer and Myrna Loy.

In 1931 she starred in the West End musical Stand Up and Sing ( 1931 ), with actor Jack Buchanan, who encouraged her to take a featured role.

During her years at Warner Brothers she starred in such pictures as My Past ( 1931 ), Honor of the Family ( 1931 ) and the extremely successful 1931 pre-code version of The Maltese Falcon, which opened to rave reviews.

A 1931 film, also called A Connecticut Yankee, starred Will Rogers.

In the late 1920s and early 1930s, Coward wrote a succession of popular hits, ranging from the operetta Bitter Sweet ( 1929 ) and the extravaganza Cavalcade ( 1931 ), requiring a large cast, gargantuan sets and a complex hydraulic stage, to the intimate comedies Private Lives ( 1930 ), in which Coward starred alongside Gertrude Lawrence, and Design for Living ( 1932 ).

In 1931, Todd became romantically involved with director Roland West, and starred in his film Corsair.

In 1931 realized the first Mexican talkie movie, an adaptation of the Federico Gamboa's novel Santa, directed by Antonio Moreno and starred by the Mexican-Hollywood star Lupita Tovar.

He starred in the original 1928 production of Bertolt Brecht's Threepenny Opera, as well as the subsequent 1931 film by Georg Wilhelm Pabst.

She starred in the film An American Tragedy ( 1931 ) in a role later recreated by Elizabeth Taylor in the 1951 retitled remake, A Place in the Sun.

Tab Hunter ( born Arthur Andrew Kelm ; July 11, 1931 ) is an American actor, singer and author who has starred in over forty major films.

The Ghost Train was first filmed in 1931 and again filmed in 1941 when it starred Arthur Askey.

She starred opposite Leslie Howard in Candle Light, an Austrian play adapted by Wodehouse, in 1929, and in 1931 she and Noël Coward triumphed in his play Private Lives, first in the UK, and later on Broadway.

Grange also starred in a 12 part serial series The Galloping Ghost in 1931.

In 1931 Hörbiger starred in Die große Liebe, the first film ever directed by Otto Preminger.

Andriessen was born in Utrecht into a musical family, the son of the composer Hendrik Andriessen ( 1892 – 1981 ), brother of composers Jurriaan Andriessen ( 1925 – 1996 ) and Caecilia Andriessen ( 1931 -), and nephew of Willem Andriessen ( 1887 – 1964 ).

Hollywood released more than 100 musical films in 1930, but only 14 in 1931.

At the end of 1931, Beauchamp, Barth, Rickenbacker and with several other individuals banded together and formed the Ro-Pat-In Corporation ( elektRO-PATent-INstruments ) in order to manufacture and distribute electrically amplified musical instruments, with an emphasis upon their newly-developed A-25 Hawaiian Guitar, often referred to as the " Frying Pan " lap-steel electric guitar as well as an Electric Spanish ( standard ) model and companion amplifiers.

When the popular musical The Threepenny Opera was filmed by director Georg Pabst, he filmed the first version with a French-speaking cast ( 1930 ), then a second version with a German-speaking cast ( 1931 ).

Her novels were especially popular and included the Pulitzer Prize-winning So Big ( 1924 ), Show Boat ( 1926 ; made into the celebrated 1927 musical ), Cimarron ( 1929 ; made into the 1931 film which won the Academy Award for Best Picture ), and Giant ( 1952 ; made into the 1956 Hollywood movie ).

* Flying High ( 1931 film ), an MGM musical produced by George White

The Love Parade ( 1929 ), Monte Carlo ( 1930 ), and The Smiling Lieutenant ( 1931 ) were hailed by critics as masterpieces of the newly emerging musical genre.

* John Henry ( play ), Broadway musical based on the 1931 novel

Jerry Herman ( born July 10, 1931 ) is an American composer and lyricist, known for his work in Broadway musical theater.

* An autographed picture of Bow is offered as a consolation prize of a beauty contest in the 1931 George Gershwin musical Of Thee I Sing.

It was during the autumn of 1930 in Paris that Bowles began work on his own first musical composition, the " Sonata for Oboe and Clarinet ", which he finished the following year and which premiered in New York at the Aeolian Hall on Wigmore St, 16 December 1931, the whole concert ( which also included work by Copland and Virgil Thomson ) was " panned " by New York critics.

For example, the term " shikepoke " appears in the 1931 play Green Grow the Lilacs, and in the 1943 musical play Oklahoma !.

Bugsy Malone is a 1976 British musical gangster film, very loosely based on events in Chicago from the early 1920s to 1931 in the Prohibition era, specifically the exploits of gangsters like Al Capone and Bugs Moran, as dramatized in cinema.

* Mary Louise Wilson ( born 1931 ), American film, musical theatre, stage and television actress

* You Said It ( 1931 ) – musical – composer

* Carl Nielsen ( 1865 – 1931 ), now an internationally recognized composer, was the dominant figure in Danish music and musical life from the end of the 1890s until well into the 20th century.

After the coming of sound he made a trilogy of films that secured his reputation: Westfront 1918 ( 1930 ), The Threepenny Opera ( 1931 ) with Lotte Lenya ( based on the Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill musical ), and Kameradschaft ( 1931 ).

In 1931, Kahn made headlines on the New York society pages when he married musical comedy actress Hannah Williams January 16, 1931.