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Posted On: October 31st 2026, 11:08 pm
💂🏻🎂Happy 85th to THE CHOCOLATE SOLDIER!!! 🍫🎉

Hollywood’s greatest baritone practically started a future fellow legend’s career by starring in an adaptation of the most iconic operettas of all time as only Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer could terrifically translate into the screen premiering on October 31, 1941.

Karl Lang and Maria Lanyi are an extraordinarily successful stage couple yet not as much in their private life as man and wife. Maria is a bit of a flirt and always seizes the chance to attract the attention of other men which makes her husband doubt her devotion. To test her fidelity Karl masquerades as Russian singer Vassily Vassilievitch and immediately thinks his idea is sheer genius as she seemingly falls for his alter ego. Their romance evolves up to the point when Karl pretends he is leaving town, which enables him to take what he refers to as the greatest performance of life on a longer run. The more Maria’s affection grows, the greater her husband’s satisfaction becomes regarding his endeavor yet he is pretty much convinced his wife is a first rate bigamist. When Karl finally decides it’s time to reveal Vassilievitch’s real identity, Maria tells him she knew all the time and just played along but sweetly confesses nobody on Earth can kiss the way her husband does.

Nelson Eddy and Risë Stevens play Maria and Karl along with Nigel Bruce, Florence Bates, Dorothy Raye, Nydia Westman, Max Barwyn and Charles Judels. Leonard Lee and Keith Winter outdid themselves with an amazingly witty screenplay yet, given the studio did not get the rights to the original operetta’s story, they based it on Fernc Molnar’s “The Guardsman” (made into an earlier film with Alfred Lunt and Lyn Fontanne). Producer Victor Saville got the legendary Herbert Stothart and an up and coming Blonislau Kaper to adapt and score the film with Roy Del Ruth as director. Boasting unforgettable songs, comedy and choreography as well as three Academy Award nominations, The Chocolate Soldier remains as entertaining and enduring eight and a half decades later!

@delruthasc @tcm @warnerarchive @amazonmgmstudios @warnerbrosepics #nelsoneddy #risestevens #nigelbruce #florencebates #roydelruth
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etfilmbuff 5 days ago

etfilmbuff

I’ll have to check out! The production design looks gorgeous 🎞️

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