Count Rudolph Falliere a.k.a. Rudy the hairdresser
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Monte Carlo is a 1930 American pre-Code musical comedy film, directed by Ernst Lubitsch. It co-stars Jack Buchanan as a French Count Rudolph Falliere masquerading as a hairdresser and Jeanette MacDonald as Countess Helene Mara.
Monte Carlo: Directed by Ernst Lubitsch. With Jack Buchanan, Jeanette MacDonald, Claud Allister, Zasu Pitts. A countess flees to Monte Carlo on the day of her wedding, where she is courted by a count posing as a hairdresser.
Monte Carlo. Jeanette MacDonald's independent-minded countess leaves her foppish prince fiancé at the altar, and whisks herself away to the Riviera. There, she strikes the fancy of the sly Count Rudolph (theater veteran Jack Buchanan), who poses as a hairdresser to get into her boudoir.
Monte Carlo is remarkably fresh and fluid for a movie made in 1930. It contains very little early-talkie creakiness, and the credit goes entirely to the master director Ernst Lubitsch. Sandwiched between two unabashed Lubitsch masterpieces - The Love Parade (1929) and The Smiling Lieutenant (1931) - the merely "very good" Monte Carlo tends to ...
The review. A broke countess runs away from marrying a duke and decides to go to Monte Carlo to make her fortune by gambling and catches the eye of a count. This is one of Ernst Lubitsch early...
When Countess Helene Mara (Jeanette MacDonald) ditches her fiancee Duke Otto von Liebenheim (Claud Allister) on their wedding day, she hops a train and makes her way to Monte Carlo, where she finds it hard to avoid a new suitor, Count Randolph Farriere (Jack Buchanan).
Director: Ernst Lubitsch. Screenplay: Ernest Vajda, based on a story by Hans Müller. Camera: Victor Milner. Cast: Jack Buchanan, Jeanette MacDonald, ZaSu Pitts, Tyler Brooke, Claud Allister, Lionel Belmore. Like most classic-film enthusiasts, I love musicals—some more than others, of course.
