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The Boudoir Diplomat
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Wikipedia article
'The Boudoir Diplomat' is a 1930 American romantic comedy film directed by Malcolm St. Clair, produced and distributed by Universal Pictures, from the play 'The Command To Love' by Fritz Gottwald and Rudolph Lothar.
The film is preserved at the Library of Congress.'Catalog of Holdings The American Film Institute Collection and The United Artist Collection at The Library of Congress' page 20, c.1978; by The American Film Institute
Plot
Ian Keith plays a French military attach in Madrid who romantically pursues the wives of various government officials. Betty Compson and Mary Duncan play the objects of his attention.
Release
The film opened to much fan-fare on December 5, 1930. According to Mordaunt Hall's review of the film, the lobby in New York's showcase theater, the Globe, was elaborately decorated for the film's run "with pink silk and photographs with violet borders."
Alternate Version
The film was remade during production into three alternate-language versions. 'Boudoir diplomatique' was the French-language version, starring Ivn Petrovich and Arlette Marchal. It was directed by Marcel De Sano and released in 1931, and is not likely to have been screened publicly in the United States. A Spanish-language version of 'Boudoir Diplomat' was released on February 13, 1931 as 'Don Juan diplomtico'. It was co-directed by George Melford (he would direct the 1931 Spanish-language version of 'Drcula') with Enrique Tovar valos, and starred Miguel Faust Rocha, Lia Tor and Celia Montalvn. 'Liebe auf Befehl', co-directed by Johannes Riemann and Ernst L. Frank, was the German-language version, starring Riemann along with Tala Birell and Olga Chekhova.
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