The Bride of the Regiment
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| Directed by | John Francis Dillon |
| Written by | Ray Harris Humphrey Pearson |
| Based on | The Lady in Ermine (stage musical, 1922) by Frederick Lonsdale and Cyrus Wood, based on Die Frau im Hermelin (operetta) by Rudolph Schanzer and Ernst Welisch |
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Vivienne Segal Walter Pidgeon Myrna Loy |
| Music by | Edward Ward |
| Cinematography | Devereaux Jennings Charles Edgar Schoenbaum (Technicolor) |
| Edited by | LeRoy Stone |
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| Distributed by | Warner Bros. Pictures |
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81 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Bride of the Regiment is a 1930 American Pre-Code musical film directed by John Francis Dillon and filmed entirely in Technicolor. The screenplay by Ray Harris and Humphrey Pearson is based on the book of the 1922 stage musical The Lady in Ermine by Frederick Lonsdale and Cyrus Wood, which had been adapted from the operetta Die Frau im Hermelin by Rudolph Schanzer and Ernst Welisch. The story is a remake of a 1927 First National silent film, The Lady in Ermine, that starred Corinne Griffith. It was later remade by 20th Century-Fox as That Lady in Ermine (1948) starring Betty Grable and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
The film takes place during a period in which Austria controlled Italy during the Austro-Italian War of 1830. Colonel Vultow, played by Walter Pidgeon, leader of Austrian cavalry regiment, is sent to Italy to put down a revolt led by the Lombardian aristocracy. Vultow decides to go to the castle of Count Adrian Beltrami, played by Allan Prior, one of the leaders of the revolution. This happens to be Beltrami's wedding day. As he is emerging from the church following his wedding to Countess Anna-Marie (Vivienne Segal), Beltrami learns that Colonel Vultow is quickly approaching the town in search of him. At the behest of his bride, Beltrami flees the castle, but he asks Tangy, a silhouette cutter, to impersonate him and protect Anna-Marie. When Adrian returns in disguise, he is introduced to Vultow as a singer and silhouette cutter, and when the count demands he create a silhouette, he enlists Tangy's aid. The deception is discovered, and Vultow sentences Adrian to death by a firing squad unless Anna-Marie submits to his sexual demands.
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