The Rouben Mamoulian Poll

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I just thought we should slip a real filmmaker in today. He's getting a retro in NYC:

http://www.filmforum.org/films/mamoulian.html

I believe Stephin Merritt thinks Love Me Tonight is the best musical film ever.

Poll Results

Option	Votes
Love Me Tonight (1932)	4
Silk Stockings (1957)	1
City Streets (1931)	1
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931)	1
The Mark of Zorro (1940)	1
Queen Christina (1933)	1
The Song of Songs (1933)	0
We Live Again (1934)	0
Becky Sharp (1935)	0
The Gay Desperado (1936)	0
High, Wide, and Handsome (1937)	0
Golden Boy (1939)	0
Blood and Sand (1941)	0
Rings on Her Fingers (1942)	0
Summer Holiday (1948)	0
Applause (1929)	0

― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 29 August 2007 19:24 (eighteen years ago)

CITY STREETS

― ghost rider, Wednesday, 29 August 2007 19:52 (eighteen years ago)

silk stockings is kind of sad

― ghost rider, Wednesday, 29 August 2007 19:54 (eighteen years ago)

Does Love Me Tonight have Maurice Chevalier?

― James Redd and the Blecchs, Wednesday, 29 August 2007 19:55 (eighteen years ago)

ahhhuuh, OUI!

― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 29 August 2007 20:01 (eighteen years ago)

isn't Old Peter Lorre 'dancing' in Silk Stockings?

That '31 Jekyll is pretty lusty and harsh, still.

― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 29 August 2007 20:03 (eighteen years ago)

Love Me Tonight. But Queen Christina is the best Garbo.

― Kevin John Bozelka, Wednesday, 29 August 2007 20:10 (eighteen years ago)

He sings "The Apache" in that one, non?

― James Redd and the Blecchs, Wednesday, 29 August 2007 20:11 (eighteen years ago)

yeah it's Old Peter Lorre that i find sad about Silk Stockings basically

― ghost rider, Wednesday, 29 August 2007 20:11 (eighteen years ago)

he's really only about 50 in that, he died before 60.

― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 29 August 2007 20:13 (eighteen years ago)

He directed bits of Laura too.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Wednesday, 29 August 2007 20:56 (eighteen years ago)

Didn't somebody once called Morbius the Waldo Lydecker of ILX?

― James Redd and the Blecchs, Wednesday, 29 August 2007 20:57 (eighteen years ago)

yes, and I said Addison DeWitt, beeyatch

― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 30 August 2007 13:17 (eighteen years ago)

I heard Otto Preminger interviewed on the radio about XX years ago and, man, did he hate Mamoulian.

What's great about Love Me Tonight is R.M. took the formula for those fun Lubitsch-Chevalier operettas, and then did it BETTER.

― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 30 August 2007 13:19 (eighteen years ago)

Haha, yeah exactly it seems just like a Lubitch (dunno about better though)

― James Redd and the Blecchs, Thursday, 30 August 2007 13:23 (eighteen years ago)

This novel
http://g-ec2.images-amazon.com/images/I/71B6SQHDRXL._AA240_.gif
is narrated by one Laszlo Löwenstein, aka Peter Lorre.

― James Redd and the Blecchs, Thursday, 30 August 2007 13:32 (eighteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― ILX System, Monday, 17 September 2007 23:01 (eighteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― ILX System, Tuesday, 18 September 2007 23:01 (eighteen years ago)

City Streets was all I caught in the retro.

― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 19 September 2007 13:20 (eighteen years ago)

two years pass...

I just thought we should slip a real filmmaker in TODAY.

Silk Stockings (mostly) SUCKS

Gay Desperado is AWESOME

Dr Jeckyll and Mr Hyde is AWESOMER

Love Me Tonight isn't quite LUBITSCH

― peacocks, Thursday, 16 September 2010 01:44 (fifteen years ago)

fourteen years pass...

Maybe, but could Lubitsch have created a musique concrète/city symphony to match the Love Me Tonight opening?

Also, Applause is a STONKING GREAT DEBUT

― Infanta Terrible (j.lu), Wednesday, 20 August 2025 15:44 (seven months ago)

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