The Merry Widow

Maurice Chevalier as "Danilo" with the opening number by Franz Lehar and Lorenz Hart, Jeanette MacDonald slipping in as the mysterious widow, from Ernst Lubitsch's celebrated 1934 version of The Merry Widow.

Count Danilo partying at Maxim's in Paris, summoned by night-lifer Marcelle (Minna Gombel), and quite unaware that the new girl Fifi (Jeanette MacDonald) is the tax-fugitive widow he's supposed to be capturing, in Ernst Lubitsch's The Merry Widow, 1934.

First proper number for the wealthy, reclusive widow Sonia (Jeanette MacDonald), witty staging from director Ernst Lubitsch, Danilo (Maurice Chevalier) among the onlookers, the song by Franz Lehar and Lorenz Hart, in MGM's The Merry Widow, 1934.

Full of flourishes by director Ernst Lubitsch, Count Danilo (Maurice Chevalier) delighting in the prospect of visiting the club in Paris, featuring Lorenz Hart's new English lyric for the tune from Franz Lehar's 1905 operetta, in The Merry Widow, 1934.

A prince (Maurice Chevalier) from a small kingdom courts a wealthy widow to keep her money in the country in Ernst Lubitsch's The Merry Widow (1934).