Nominated for a Best Picture Oscar, this pre-Code musical sparkles with the famed “Lubitsch Touch”. Sexual innuendo abounds as Chevalier’s cocky philanderer thrusts and parries with the saucy Colbert, who excels as the modern, sexually liberated Franzi. In just her third film, Hopkins manages to come off slightly dowdy until the rousing finale of “Jazz Up Your Lingerie,” when she blossoms into a sexy, red-blooded lady. Still wonderfully entertaining after all these years, Lubitsch’s third musical was the highest grossing Paramount film of 1931.
