The Great Lover (1931)
He'll give you a complete course in love-making! He'll show you how to win a woman's heart-or how to gently escape from bounds that grow boring! In short, he'll give you the time of your romance-craving life!
An aspiring classical singer is romanced by both a famous opera star and his younger understudy.
- Date of release
- 1931-07-18
- TMDB
- 6.4 / 10 (5)
- Runtime
- 1h 11m
- Genres
- Drama
- Director
- Harry Beaumont
Casting
- Adolphe Menjou — Paurel
- Irene Dunne — Diana
- Ernest Torrence — Potter
- Neil Hamilton — Carlo
- Olga Baclanova — Savarova
- Cliff Edwards — Finny
- Hale Hamilton — Stapleton
- Roscoe Ates — Rosco
- Herman Bing — Losseck
- Elsa Janssen — Mme. Neumann Baumbach
- Lilian Bond — Mrs. Loring (uncredited)
- Mary Carlisle — Blonde Autograph Seeker (uncredited)
Interesting facts
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.
Production
An earlier version, also based on the 1915 play, was The Great Lover (1920), starring John Sainpolis and Claire Adams.
The 1949 film The Great Lover starring Bob Hope was similar in title only.
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