''The Woman from Monte Carlo'' is an American
pre-Code film produced by
Warner Bros.
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subsidiary
First National Pictures
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(with the
Vitaphone
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logo) in 1931 and released on January 9, 1932. It was directed by
Michael Curtiz and gave top billing to
German
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**Ger ...
star
Lil Dagover
Lil Dagover (; born Marie Antonia Siegelinde Martha Seubert; 30 September 1887 – 23 January 1980) was a German actress whose film career spanned between 1913 and 1979. She was one of the most popular and recognized film actresses in the Weimar ...
in her sole Hollywood film. Leading men
Walter Huston and
Warren William were listed after the title in the manner of supporting players.
Cast
*
Lil Dagover
Lil Dagover (; born Marie Antonia Siegelinde Martha Seubert; 30 September 1887 – 23 January 1980) was a German actress whose film career spanned between 1913 and 1979. She was one of the most popular and recognized film actresses in the Weimar ...
as Lottie Corlaix
*
Walter Huston as Captain Corlaix
*
Warren William as Lieutenant D'Ortelles
*
John Wray as Commander Brambourg
*
George E. Stone
George E. Stone (born Gerschon Lichtenstein; May 18, 1903 – May 26, 1967) was a Polish-born American character actor in films, radio, and television.
Life and career
Stone was born Gerschon Lichtenstein in Łódź, Congress Poland, into ...
as Le Duc
*
Robert Warwick
Robert Warwick (born Robert Taylor Bien, October 9, 1878 – June 6, 1964) was an American stage, film and television actor with over 200 film appearances. A matinee idol during the silent film era, he also prospered after the introduction ...
as Mobraz
*
Matt McHugh Chief Petty Officer Vincent
*
Frederick Burton as President of court-martial
* Frank Leigh as Pilot
*
Francis McDonald as Karkuff
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Warner Richmond
Warner Richmond (born Werner Paul Otto Raetzmann; January 11, 1886 – June 19, 1948) was an American stage and film actor. He began his career as a stock theatre actor and appeared in films in both the silent film and sound eras. His career spa ...
as Fourdylis
*
Reginald Barlow
Reginald Harry Barlow (June 17, 1866 – July 6, 1943) was an American stage and screen character actor, author, and film director. He was a busy performer in Hollywood films of the 1930s.
Early life
A native of Cambridge, Massachusetts, ...
as Defense attorney
Other works based on the play
The play on which the film is based,
Claude Farrère
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One of ...
's and Lucien Népoty's ''Veille d'Armes'' (also listed as ''Veilles d'Armes'') was adapted by
Michael Morton and titled ''In the Night Watch'' upon its
London
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opening on December 21, 1918 and its New York debut on January 29, 1921. The 1921
Broadway production by the
Shubert brothers
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starred
Jeanne Eagels
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, with
Robert Warwick
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(playing a sixth-billed supporting character in the film) in Walter Huston's role of the husband and
Edmund Lowe in the Warren William part of the lovestruck lieutenant. It provided the plot line for a 1925
French
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silent directed by
Jacques de Baroncelli and distributed as ''Before the Battle'' in the English-speaking world. An American silent version was released in 1928 under the title ''
Night Watch
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Books
* ''The Night Watch'', a 1977 memoir by Central Intelligence Agency officer David Atlee Phillips
Novels
* ''Night Watch'', a 1972 novel by American screenwriter Lucille Fletcher
* ''Night Watch'', a 1 ...
'', directed by
Alexander Korda, with stars
Billie Dove and
Paul Lukas
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. Three years after the release of ''The Woman from Monte Carlo'',
''The Woman from Monte Carlo'' review (''Pittsburgh Post-Gazette'', February 15, 1932, page 6)
/ref> another French version, directed by Marcel L'Herbier
Marcel L'Herbier (; 23 April 1888 – 26 November 1979) was a French filmmaker who achieved prominence as an avant-garde theorist and imaginative practitioner with a series of silent films in the 1920s. His career as a director continued unti ...
, with stars Annabella
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*Annabella of Scotland (c. 1433–1509), daughter of King James I
*Annabella (actress) (1907–1996), stage name of French actress Suzanne Georgette C ...
and Victor Francen
Victor Francen (born Victor Franssens, 5 August 1888 – 18 November 1977) was a Belgian-born actor with a long career in French cinema and in Hollywood.
Biography
Francen was born in 1888 in Tienen, the son of a chief of police.
According ...
, was released and subsequently marketed in English-speaking countries as ''Sacrifice of Honor''.
References
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1932 films
American drama films
American black-and-white films
American films based on plays
Films directed by Michael Curtiz
First National Pictures films
1932 drama films
1930s English-language films
1930s American films