Word: marshovia
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...Merry Widow (MGM) is the fourth Hollywood version of the famed old (1905) Franz Lehar operetta.* This time Lana Turner is the wealthy Widow Radek from Hoboken, and Fernando Lamas is Count Danilo of Marshovia, who is assigned to marry her in order to save his country from bankruptcy, an act of cold-blooded patriotism that is complicated by hot-blooded love...
...Lubitsch version, Captain Danilo (Maurice Chevalier) is dispatched from Marshovia to Paris to marry his country's richest widow (Jeanette MacDonald) lest she impoverish the royal treasury by marrying a foreigner. He goes to Maxim's for a farewell debauch, makes love to a cocotte who turns out to be the widow in disguise. Meeting her again at a diplomatic reception, he finds it impossible to convince her that his affection is sincere until he has been convicted of treason for failing in his mission...
...suffer from a sense of selfimportance. In The Merry Widow these assets are adroitly subordinated to Director Lubitsch's ability to improve a story by telling it as if he did not mean it. The best laugh in the picture comes from an old newspaper in which Marshovia's King, preparing to abdicate, wraps up his crown. Happiness Ahead (Warner). When Warner Brothers announced last summer that they had discovered an ingenue who would be "one of the five biggest stars of the screen within a year," it was surprising to learn that their discovery was Josephine Hutchinson...
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