Tovarich (film)
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- This article is about the 1937 film. For other uses, see Tovarishch.
| Tovarich | |
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 Claudette Colbert and Charles Boyer in Tovarich |
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| Directed by | Anatole Litvak |
| Produced by | Anatole Litvak |
| Written by | Casey Robinson Jacques Deval (play) Robert E. Sherwood |
| Starring | Claudette Colbert Charles Boyer Basil Rathbone Anita Louise |
| Music by | Max Steiner |
| Cinematography | Charles Lang |
| Editing by | Henri Rust |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros |
| Release date(s) |  25 December 1937 |
| Running time | 98 min |
| Country | USA |
| Language | English |
| IMDb profile | |
Tovarich is a 1937 Warner Bros comedy film based on the 1935 play by Robert E. Sherwood. It was produced and directed by Anatole Litvak with Robert Lord as associate producer and Hal B. Wallis and Jack L. Warner as executive producers. The screenplay was by Casey Robinson from the French play by Jacques Deval adapted into English by Robert E. Sherwood. The music score was by Max Steiner and the cinematography by Charles Lang.
The film stars Claudette Colbert and Charles Boyer with Basil Rathbone, Anita Louise, Melville Cooper, Isabel Jeans, Morris Carnovsky and Curt Bois in his American debut role.
[edit] Plot
The title Tovarich means comrade in Russian.
Russian Prince Mikail Alexandrovitch Ouratieff (Charles Boyer) and his wife, Grand Duchess Tatiana Petrovna (Claudette Colbert) escape from Russia to Paris with the Czar's fortune which he has entrusted to them for safekeeping. They put the money in a bank, and, destitute, they take jobs as butler and maid in the home of wealthy Charles Dupont (Melville Cooper) and his wife Fernande (Isabel Jeans). At a dinner party, their secret is exposed when one of the guests, Gorotchenko (Basil Rathbone), regognises them.
[edit] Notes
- This is the first Warner Brothers film to begin with the famous Warners fanfare, which was composed by Max Steiner.
- The original play by Jacques Deval opened in Paris on 13 October 1933. Robert E. Sherwood's English adaptation opened in London on 24 April 1935, (Melville Cooper reprised his stage role for the movie) and on Broadway on Oct 15, 1936, starring Marta Abba.
- The play was made into a Broadway musical Tovarich (1963) (Book by David Shaw, music by Lee Pockriss and lyrics by (Anne Croswell) starring Vivien Leigh and Jean-Pierre Aumont. It ran for 264 performances and won Leigh the Tony Award for Best Actress.
[edit] External links
- Tovarich at the Internet Movie Database
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