Love Me Tonight (1932)

When tailor Maurice Chevalier travels to Vicomte Charles Ruggles’s castle to collect on past due payments, he finds himself faking an aristocratic identity and falling in love with Ruggles’s niece Jeanette MacDonald. While I liked both Chevalier and MacDonald much more than other films I’ve seen them in, the other characters outshine the leads, particularly a trio of Macbethian aunts and a delightfully sex-crazed Myrna Loy. The film does display a number of surprisingly well-crafted musical numbers that would be more expected during the golden age of musicals versus in a pre-Code, relatively early talkie.