Watch The Merry Widow (1934) Free Online

Release Date: 1934

Cast: Patricia Farley, Dorothy Granger, Tyler Brooke, Eleanor Hunt, Edward Everett Horton, Billy Gilbert, Herman Bing, Barbara Leonard, Jason Robards, Sr., Minna Gombell, Donald Meek, Una Merkel ...MORE

Categories: Movies, Romantic comedy, Period piece, Black-and-white, Comedy, Musical, Pre-Code, Romantic drama, Romance Film

The Merry Widow is a 1934 film adaptation of the operetta of the same name by Franz Lehár. It was directed by Ernst Lubitsch and starred Maurice Chevalier and Jeanette MacDonald. A French-language version was produced at the same time and released in France the same year as La Veuve joyeuse. Playboy, Captain Danilo (Maurice Chevalier), is ordered by King Achmet of Marshovia (George Barbier) to court and marry Madame Sonia (Jeanette MacDonald), a rich widow who owns a large portion of the kingdom. Cedric Gibbons and Fredric Hope won the Academy Award for Best Art Direction. MORE