
Horse Feathers(1932)
Quincy Adams Wagstaff, the new president of Huxley U, hires bumblers Baravelli and Pinky to help his school win the big football game against rival Darwin U.



Maurice Chevalier
Count Danilo

Jeanette MacDonald
Madame Sonia / Fifi

Edward Everett Horton
Ambassador Popoff

Una Merkel
Queen Dolores

George Barbier
King Achmet

Minna Gombell
Marcelle

Ruth Channing
Lulu

Sterling Holloway
Orderly

Donald Meek
Valet

Herman Bing
Zizipoff
The Merry Widow is a comedy, music, romance film released in 1934 exploring themes of widow, musical, pre-code. Directed by Ernst Lubitsch, it stars Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald, Edward Everett Horton. A prince from a small kingdom courts a wealthy widow to keep her money in the country.
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