FILM · 1932 · USA
Love Me Tonight
- Directed by
- Rouben Mamoulian
- Runtime
- 89 min
- Studio
- Paramount Pictures
18 archived facts 3 topics 1 source Last reviewed Oct 2026
A Parisian tailor goes to a château to collect a bill, only to fall for an aloof young princess living there.
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All facts (18)
- #001
For the Production Code reissue (after 1934), Love Me Tonight was cut down to 96 minutes. The missing minutes were never restored and are presumed lost.
- #002
According to her autobiography, Myrna Loy was originally going to wear a white empire-style dress for the party scene, but Jeanette MacDonald was jealous of her appearance and insisted on wearing it herself instead. Loy handed over the dress but then went to the wardrobe department and, with a friend's help, assembled the black lace outfit she wears in the final film. She stole the scene.
- #003
Love Me Tonight was the first film to use a zoom lens.
- #004
Among the cuts made for the film's 1949 reissue was Myrna Loy's part in the "Mimi" reprise. During the Production Code era, Miss Loy's negligee was considered too revealing.
- #005
The death of Maurice Chevalier's mother during production was reported to have affected the actor's work on the film.
- #006
Love Me Tonight was the seventh most popular film at the U.S. box office in 1932.
- #007
Love Me Tonight was selected for the Library of Congress National Film Registry in 1990.
- #008
In her autobiography, Myrna Loy recalled that Maurice Chevalier resembled Henry Fonda, had an enormous shyness and was not a dynamic man. "He remained a mystery to me, Chevalier, a man who kept entirely to himself, a very, very strange man. Then he steps onto the set, the lights go on and this thing happens; the magnificent thing that everyone admires."
- #009
The photograph of "Rochambeau" shown in the film belongs to the actor Tom Ricketts.
- #010
This is one of four films starring Jeanette MacDonald and Maurice Chevalier. The others are The Love Parade (1929), One Hour with You (1932) and The Merry Widow (1934).
- #011
It was among the 500 films on the American Film Institute's 2000 list of nominees for the 100 Funniest American Films.
- #012
It was among the 400 films on the American Film Institute's 2002 list of nominees for America's 100 Greatest Love Stories.
- #013
Love Me Tonight holds a 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 10 critics' reviews.
- #014
It was among the 180 films on the American Film Institute's 2006 list of nominees for AFI's Greatest Movie Musicals.
- #015
It is one of more than 700 Paramount productions made between 1929 and 1949 that were sold to MCA/Universal in 1958 for television distribution and have been owned and controlled by Universal ever since; the first documented television broadcasts took place on Monday, September 27, 1959, on KIRO (Channel 7) in Seattle and on Monday, November 2, 1959, on WTCN (Channel 11) in Minneapolis.
- #016
It was the debut of the actress Rita Owin.
- #017
The role of Countess Valentine was almost cut from the film. Rouben Mamoulian liked the role for his friend Myrna Loy. Ironically, Loy had just signed a new contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and was loaned to Paramount for this production for a relatively small role that became very important in her career.
- #018
Introducing a 1968 screening of the film at the Museum of Modern Art, Joseph L. Mankiewicz said: "For me the most remarkable part of the picture was a young actress named Myrna Loy. Light and flexible, Myrna is the reason you forget who is playing opposite Chevalier — she was a singer, she sang. Chevalier took it, but as I remember it, Myrna took the picture."
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