The Great Lover (1931 film)

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The Great Lover
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Directed by Harry Beaumont
Written by Gene Markey
Edgar Allan Woolf
Based onThe Great Lover
1915 play
by Leo Ditrichstein
Fanny Hatton
Frederick Hatton
Starring Adolphe Menjou
Irene Dunne
Ernest Torrence
Cinematography Merritt B. Gerstad
Edited by Helene Warne
Music by Charles-François Gounod
Production
company
Distributed byMetro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date
  • July 18, 1931 (1931-07-18)
Running time
71 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

The Great Lover is a 1931 American pre-Code romantic drama film directed by Harry Beaumont and starring Adolphe Menjou and Irene Dunne. The supporting cast includes Ernest Torrence, Neil Hamilton and Olga Baclanova. It as produced and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and based on the 1915 The Great Lover by Leo Ditrichstein. Dunne was loaned from RKO for the film. [1]

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Plot

Jean Paurel is a famous opera star, who agrees to help Diana Page her career, in order to take advantage of her. But instead he finds himself falling in love with her.

Cast

Production

An earlier version, also based on the 1915 play, was The Great Lover (1920), starring John Sainpolis and Claire Adams. [2]

The 1949 film The Great Lover starring Bob Hope was similar in title only.

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References

  1. Gehring p.35
  2. Goble p.785

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