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

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    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.

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