Love Me Tonight

Love Me Tonight is a 1932 American PreCode musical comedy film produced and directed by Rouben Mamoulian, with music by Rodgers and Hart. It stars Maurice Chevalier as a tailor who poses as a nobleman and Jeanette MacDonald as a princess with whom he falls in love. It also stars Charles Ruggles as a penniless nobleman, along with Charles Butterworth and Myrna Loy as members of his family.

The story describes an encounter between a Parisian tailor named Maurice Courtelin Chevalier and a family of local aristocrats. These include Vicomte Gilbert de Varze Ruggles, who owes Maurice a large amount of money for tailoring work Gilberts uncle the Duc dArtelines C. Aubrey Smith, the family patriarch dArtelines manhungry niece Valentine Loy and his other 22yearold niece, Princesse Jeanette MacDonald, who has been a widow for three years. DArtelines has been unable to find Jeanette a new husband of suitable age and rank. The household also includes three aunts and an ineffectual suitor the Comte de Savignac Butterworth.Maurice customtailors clothing for de Varze on credit, but the Vicomtes unpaid tailoring bills become intolerable, so Maurice travels to de Savignacs castle to collect the money owed to him. On the way, he has a confrontation with Princesse Jeanette. He immediately professes his love for her, but she haughtily rejects him. ........

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