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The Merry Widow
A prince from a small kingdom courts a wealthy widow to keep her money in the country.
Ernst Lubitsch
Casts & Crew
Maurice Chevalier
Jeanette MacDonald
Edward Everett Horton
Una Merkel
George Barbier
Minna Gombell
Ruth Channing
Sterling Holloway
Donald Meek
Herman Bing
Jacklyn Alexander
Lona Andre
Henry Armetta
Zita Baca
Barbara Barondess
George Baxter
Cosmo Kyrle Bellew
Sheila Bromley
Tyler Brooke
Kathleen Burke
A.S. Byron
Richard Carle
Nora Cecil
Shirley Chambers
Lane Chandler
Claudia Coleman
Gino Corrado
Dorothy Dehn
Jill Dennett
Paul Ellis
Patricia Farley
Christian J. Frank
Otto Fries
Dorothy Granger
Roger Gray
Winter Hall
Mary Halsey
Jeanne Hart
Tom Herbert
Arthur Housman
Eleanor Hunt
Perry Ivins
Leonid Kinskey
Connie La Mont
Barbara Leonard
George J. Lewis
Caryl Lincoln
Bella Loblov
Jacques Lory
George Magrill
Eric Mayne
Wilmuth Merkyl
John "Skins" Miller
Frank O'Connor
Akim Tamiroff
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