The Postman from Longjumeau (1936)
January 14, 1936
Release Date
Plot.
La Marquise de Pompadour desires the best tenor in for her opera company, and after an extensive search in the provinces, Chapelou is selected and forced to leave his bride-of-an-hour to go to Paris. Alfer seeing the handsome tenor, the Marquise decides not to let his bride, Madeliane, him in Paris. Graf de Latour, banished from the court for his bawdy song about La Pompadour, goes to the town where Chapelou has left his bride and sees an opportunity to get even. He takes Madeleine in hand and after exhaustive grooming and make-over he returns to court with her as his banishment has been lifted, and Chepelou, failing to recognize hie own wife, falls in love with her.
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Cast & Crew.

Carl Esmond
Chapelou, der Postillon von Lonjumeau

Leo Slezak
Graf de Latour

Lucie Englisch
Lucienne

Rudolf Carl
Bijou

Hans Thimig
Pierre Touche, Dorfbarbier

Thekla Ahrens
Marquise de Pompadour

Rose Stradner
Madelaine

Alfred Neugebauer
König Ludwig XV

Karel Lamač
Director

Karl Peter Gillmann
Screenplay

Richard Eybner
Marquis de Corcy

Fritz Imhoff
Bürgermeister

Julia Serda
Writer

Charles Amberg
Writer

Anton Profes
Composer

Eduard Hoesch
Cinematographer

Else Baum
Editor

Erwin Dressler
Editor

Hans Ledersteger
ProductionDesigner

Franz Meschkan
ProductionDesigner
Details.
Release Date
January 14, 1936
Original Name
Der Postillon von Lonjumeau
Status
Released
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This Movie Is About.
musical
Wiki.
The Postman from Longjumeau (German: Der Postillon von Lonjumeau) is a 1936 Austrian-Swiss musical comedy film directed by Carl Lamac and starring Carl Esmond, Rose Stradner and Alfred Neugebauer. The film is known by several alternative titles including Der König lächelt – Paris lacht (The King Smiles – Paris Laughs). It is loosely based on the 1836 opera Le postillon de Lonjumeau by Adolphe Adam. In eighteenth-century , a Postilion from Longjumeau is summoned by Madame de Pompadour to sing in her opera company, forcing him to be separated from his wife.