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That Lady in Ermine (1948) -- When a dashing Colonel invades her castle and takes her hostage, will the Countess take her revenge... or fall in love?

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Release Date:
25 September 1948 (Sweden) more
Tagline:
GAY, MUSICAL COMEDY...SPARKLING WITH SPICY SITUATIONS! (original ad - all caps)
Plot:
Circa 1861, Angelina, ruling countess of an Italian principality, is at a loss when invaded by a Hungarian army... more | add synopsis
Awards:
Nominated for Oscar. Another 1 nomination more
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last but not least more (10 total)

Cast

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Betty Grable ... Francesca / Angelina

Douglas Fairbanks Jr. ... Colonel Ladislas Karolyi Teglas / The duke

Cesar Romero ... Count Mario
Walter Abel ... Major Horvath / Benvenuto
Reginald Gardiner ... Alberto
Harry Davenport ... Luigi
Virginia Campbell ... Theresa
Whit Bissell ... Giulio
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
This Is the Moment (USA) (working title)
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Runtime:
89 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Recording)
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Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Director Ernst Lubitsch died early in production; Otto Preminger completed the film. more
Quotes:
Col. Ladislas Karolyi Teglas: If one is in love, one doesn't need an umbrella. more
Movie Connections:
Featured in The Costume Designer (1950) more
Soundtrack:
THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT MIDNIGHT more

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last but not least, 11 November 2006
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Author: yvescouvert from France

Lubitsch's last production but not his least interesting film. Somehow largely ignored by critics as he couldn't finish it himself and as the movie wasn't co-signed by Preminger who he did most of the staging... A very strange mix of musical (a remembrance of The Merry Widow ?)and classic Lubitsch touch sentimentalism (an impossible love-story like Cluny Brown)yet a very clever and intelligent one yet not to be understood as some nostalgia of some lost world but rather a testament on eternal feelings prevailing on the foolishness of mankind and especially men in times of war with a "moral" lesson still true today as it was in 1948. Billy wilder as an answer to Preminger who grieved at Lubitsch's funerals about having lost a great man replied that we still had his films and that sums it all up about that Lady in Ermine...

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