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# The Smiling Lieutenant (1931): cast and crew

18 cast and 20 crew, as credited (TMDB). Cast in billing order.

## Cast

- [Maurice Chevalier](https://film.one/person/maurice-chevalier.md) as Lt. Nikolaus 'Niki' von Preyn
- [Claudette Colbert](https://film.one/person/claudette-colbert.md) as Franzi
- [Miriam Hopkins](https://film.one/person/miriam-hopkins.md) as Princess Anna
- [Charles Ruggles](https://film.one/person/charles-ruggles.md) as Max
- [George Barbier](https://film.one/person/george-barbier.md) as King Adolf XV
- [Hugh O'Connell](https://film.one/person/hugh-oconnell.md) as Niki's Orderly
- [Maude Allen](https://film.one/person/maude-allen.md) as Lady in Waiting (uncredited)
- [Granville Bates](https://film.one/person/granville-bates.md) as Bill Collector (uncredited)
- [Harry C. Bradley](https://film.one/person/harry-c-bradley.md) as Count Von Holden (uncredited)
- [Carrie Daumery](https://film.one/person/carrie-daumery.md) as Lady in Waiting (uncredited)
- [Ludwig Heinsich](https://film.one/person/ludwig-heinsich.md) as Man (uncredited)
- [Cornelius MacSunday](https://film.one/person/cornelius-macsunday.md) as Emperor Franz Josef (uncredited)
- Elizabeth Patterson as Baroness Von Schwedel (uncredited)
- Janet Reade as Lily (uncredited)
- Werner Saxtorph as Joseph (uncredited)
- Karl Stall as Master of Ceremonies (uncredited)
- Robert Strange as Colonel Rockoff (uncredited)
- Charles Wagenheim as Arresting Officer (uncredited)

## Directing

- [Ernst Lubitsch](https://film.one/person/ernst-lubitsch.md): Director

## Writing

- [Samson Raphaelson](https://film.one/person/samson-raphaelson.md): Screenplay
- [Ernest Vajda](https://film.one/person/ernest-vajda.md): Screenplay
- Leopold Jacobson: Opera
- Felix Dormann: Opera
- Hans Müller-Einigen: Novel
- [Ernst Lubitsch](https://film.one/person/ernst-lubitsch.md): Writer
- Clifford Grey: Lyricist

## Production

- [Ernst Lubitsch](https://film.one/person/ernst-lubitsch.md): Producer
- Milton Sperling: Production Assistant

## Camera

- [George J. Folsey](https://film.one/person/george-j-folsey.md): Director of Photography

## Editing

- [Merrill G. White](https://film.one/person/merrill-g-white.md): Editor

## Sound and music

- [Oscar Straus](https://film.one/person/oscar-straus.md): Songs, Original Music Composer
- C.A. Tuthill: Sound
- [Adolph Deutsch](https://film.one/person/adolph-deutsch.md): Music Director
- Conrad Salinger: Music Arranger
- Johnny Green: Music Arranger
- Ernest Zatorsky: Sound

## Art

- Hans Dreier: Art Direction

## Crew

- Harry Froboess: Stunts

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