Plot Summary: A musical remake of The Marriage Circle (1924),
One Hour with You stars Maurice
Chevalier as a Parisian doctor and Jeanette MacDonald as his loving wife.
Chevalier is scrupulously faithful, much to the chagrin of his lovely female
patients. But when MacDonald's best friend Genevieve Tobin insists upon
being treated by Dr. Chevalier, it looks to many of those concerned that
Tobin may succeed where the other willing ladies failed. The misunderstandings
and reconciliations of the plotline are playfully staged with deliberate
artificiality by director Ernst Lubitsch: Characters speak in rhymed couplets,
Parisian gendarmes issue orders to their minions to the beat of a ticking
clock, and Chevalier regularly talks directly to the audience. One Hour
With You is a tuneful confection which is just as refreshing today as it
was sixty years ago. -- Hal Erickson
Maurice
Chevalier as a Parisian doctor and Jeanette MacDonald as his loving wife.
Chevalier is scrupulously faithful, much to the chagrin of his lovely female
patients. But when MacDonald's best friend Genevieve Tobin insists upon
being treated by Dr. Chevalier, it looks to many of those concerned that
Tobin may succeed where the other willing ladies failed. The misunderstandings
and reconciliations of the plotline are playfully staged with deliberate
artificiality by director Ernst Lubitsch: Characters speak in rhymed couplets,
Parisian gendarmes issue orders to their minions to the beat of a ticking
clock, and Chevalier regularly talks directly to the audience. One Hour
With You is a tuneful confection which is just as refreshing today as it
was sixty years ago. -- Hal Erickson