Story of movie Monte Carlo 1930 Film : Monte Carlo is a 1930 American pre-Code musical comedy film, directed by Ernst Lubitsch. It stars Jeanette MacDonald as Countess Helene Mara. The film is notable for the song "Beyond the Blue Horizon", which was written for the film and was performed by Jeanette MacDonald. The film was also hailed by critics as a masterpiece of the newly emerging musical genre. The screenplay was based on the Booth Tarkington novel Monsieur Beaucaire.
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| Directed by | Ernst Lubitsch |
| Produced by | Ernst Lubitsch |
| Written by | Ernest Vajda Hans Müller-Einigen Booth Tarkington Evelyn Greenleaf Sutherland |
| Starring | Jack Buchanan Jeanette MacDonald Claud Allister |
| Music by | W. Franke Harling |
| Cinematography | Victor Milner |
| Edited by | Merrill G. White |
| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
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Running time | 90 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Screenplay
Countess Helene Mara is engaged to be married to Prince Otto Von Liebenheim but leaves him at the altar. She flees on a train to Monte Carlo and checks into a hotel. When she arrives at the casino a count named Rudolph Falliere takes a liking to her and poses as a hairdresser whom she hires and falls in love with but could not marry if he is a commoner. Her fiance later arrives and takes her to an opera and she sees Rudolph there in one of the expensive seats indicating he is too wealthy to be a hairdresser. When he reveals to her that he is a count, she realises she can marry him.
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