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Devil-May-Care is a 1929 American Pre-Code musical film directed by Sidney Franklin with a Technicolor sequence of the Albertina Rasch Dancers. The film was released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer on December 27, 1929 and was Ramon Novarro's talkie debut.[2][3]

Devil-May-Care
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Sidney Franklin
Written by	Hanns Kräly Zelda Sears
Screenplay by	Richard Schayer
Based on	La Bataille de dames, ou un duel en amour by Ernest Legouvé and Eugène Scribe
Starring	Ramon Novarro Dorothy Jordan Marion Harris John Miljan William Humphrey
Cinematography	Merritt B. Gerstad
Edited by	Conrad A. Nervig
Music by	Herbert Stothart William Axt
Production company	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
Distributed by	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
Release date	December 27, 1929 (1929-12-27)
Running time	97 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$487,000[1]
Box office	$1,416,000 (worldwide rentals)[1]

The film is based upon the 1851 play La Bataille de dames, ou un duel en amour by Ernest Legouvé and Eugène Scribe. It is known by a variety of other names, including Battle of the Ladies (the film's working title), Der Leutnant des Kaisers (Austria), Der jüngste Leutnant (Germany), Il tenente di Napoleone (Italy), and O lohagos tis aftokratorikis frouras (Greece).

Plot

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Cast

• Ramon Novarro as Armand
• Dorothy Jordan as Leonie
• Marion Harris as Louise
• John Miljan as DeGrignon
• William Humphrey as Napoleon
• George Davis as Groom
• Clifford Bruce as Gaston
• Lionel Belmore as Innkeeper (uncredited)
• John Carroll as Bonapartist (uncredited)
• George Chandler as Timid Royalist (uncredited)
• Ann Dvorak as Chorine (uncredited)
• Bob Kortman as Bonapartist (uncredited)

Soundtrack

• "Shepherd Serenade"

Written by Clifford Grey and Herbert Stothart

• "Charming"

Written by Clifford Grey and Herbert Stothart

• "If He Cared"

Written by Clifford Grey and Herbert Stothart

• "March of the Guard"

Written by Clifford Grey and Herbert Stothart

• "Love Ballet"

Written by Dimitri Tiomkin

Performed by Albertina Rasch Dancers

See also

• List of early color feature films

References

External links

• Devil-May-Care at IMDb
• Synopsis at AllMovie
• Devil-May-Care at the TCM Movie Database
• Devil-May-Care at the American Film Institute Catalog
• Lobby poster

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