Bride of the Regiment is a 1930 American musical film directed by John Francis Dillon. The screenplay by Ray Harris and Humphrey Pearson is based on the book of the 1922 stage musical The Lady in Ermine by Frederick Lonsdale and Cyrus Wood, which had been adapted from the operetta Die Frau im Hermelin by Rudolph Schanzer and Ernst Welisch.
As they are emerging from the church following their wedding, Count Adrian Beltrami and Countess Anna-Marie...
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Bride of the Regiment is a 1930 American musical film directed by John Francis Dillon. The screenplay by Ray Harris and Humphrey Pearson is based on the book of the 1922 stage musical The Lady in Ermine by Frederick Lonsdale and Cyrus Wood, which had been adapted from the operetta Die Frau im Hermelin by Rudolph Schanzer and Ernst Welisch.
As they are emerging from the church following their wedding, Count Adrian Beltrami and Countess Anna-Marie learn Austrian hussars, led by Colonel Vultow, are approaching the town to stifle a rebellion by aristocratic insurgents. At the behest of his bride, Adrian flees the castle, but he asks Tangy, a silhouette cutter, to impersonate him and protect Anna-Marie. When Adrian returns in disguise, he is introduced to Vultow as a singer and silhouette cutter, and when the count demands he create a silhouette, he enlists Tangy's aid. The deception is discovered, and Vultow sentences Adrian to death by a firing squad unless Anna-Marie submits to his...
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