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Devil-May-Care
Sign in to saveDevil-May-Care is a 1929 American Pre-Code musical film directed by Sidney Franklin with a Technicolor sequence of the Albertina Rasch Dancers. The film was released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer on December 27, 1929 and was Ramon Novarro's talkie debut.
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6.2A follower of Napoleon escapes the firing squad, flees to a woman's bedroom and winds up butler.
Cast
- Ramon Novarro as Armand de Treville
- Dorothy Jordan as Leonie de Beaufort
- Marion Harris as Countess Louise
- John Miljan as Lucien DeGrignon
- William Humphrey as Napoleon Bonaparte
- George Davis as Groom
Themes
- musical
- napoleon bonaparte
- pre-code
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- Duration
- 97
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- publication date
- 1929-01-01
- title
- Devil-May-Care
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- Devil-May-Care
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Article
6 sectionsContents
- Plot
- Cast
- Soundtrack
- See also
- References
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Devil-May-Care is a 1929 American Pre-Code musical film directed by Sidney Franklin with a Technicolor sequence of the Albertina Rasch Dancers. The film was released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer on December 27, 1929 and was Ramon Novarro's talkie debut.
The film is based upon the 1851 play La Bataille de dames, ou un duel en amour by Ernest Legouvé and Eugène Scribe. It is known by a variety of other names, including Battle of the Ladies (the film's working title), Der Leutnant des Kaisers (Austria), Der jüngste Leutnant (Germany), Il tenente di Napoleone (Italy), and O lohagos tis aftokratorikis frouras (Greece).