The Postman from Longjumeau (1936)
January 14, 1936Release Date
Plot.
La Marquise de Pompadour desires the best tenor in France for her opera company, and after an extensive search in the provinces, Chapelou is selected and forced to leave his bride-of-an-hour to go to Paris. Alfer seeing the handsome tenor, the Marquise decides not to let his bride, Madeliane, join him in Paris. Graf de Latour, banished from the court for his bawdy song about La Pompadour, goes to the town where Chapelou has left his bride and sees an opportunity to get even. He takes Madeleine in hand and after exhaustive grooming and make-over he returns to court with her as his banishment has been lifted, and Chepelou, failing to recognize hie own wife, falls in love with her.
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Cast & Crew.
Carl Esmond
Chapelou, der Postillon von Lonjumeau
Leo Slezak
Graf de Latour
Lucie Englisch
Lucienne
Rudolf Carl
Bijou
Hans Thimig
Pierre Touche, Dorfbarbier
Thekla Ahrens
Marquise de Pompadour
Rose Stradner
Madelaine
Alfred Neugebauer
König Ludwig XV
Details.
Release DateJanuary 14, 1936
Original NameDer Postillon von Lonjumeau
StatusReleased
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This Movie Is About.
musical
Wiki.
The Postman from Longjumeau (German: Der Postillon von Lonjumeau) is a 1936 Austrian-Swiss musical comedy film directed by Carl Lamac and starring Carl Esmond, Rose Stradner and Alfred Neugebauer. The film is known by several alternative titles including Der König lächelt – Paris lacht (The King Smiles – Paris Laughs). It is loosely based on the 1836 opera Le postillon de Lonjumeau by Adolphe Adam. In eighteenth-century France, a Postilion from Longjumeau is summoned by Madame de Pompadour to sing in her opera company, forcing him to be separated from his wife.