The Big Pond (1930)
78 mins | Comedy-drama | 3 May 1930
Director:
Hobart HenleyWriters:
Robert Presnell , Garrett FortProducer:
Monta BellEditor:
Emma HillProduction Company:
Paramount Publix Corp.A French-language version of The Big Pond, La grande mare (See Entry), was filmed simultaneously with the English version. Maurice Chevalier sang "You Brought a New Kind of Love to Me" and "Livin' in the Sunlight, Lovin' in the Moonlight" in both versions. Chevalier, Claudette Colbert and Andrée Corday were also in the French version of the film. Chevalier received a Best Actor Academy Award nomination for his collective work on this film and The Love Parade (See Entry). ...
A French-language version of The Big Pond, La grande mare (See Entry), was filmed simultaneously with the English version. Maurice Chevalier sang "You Brought a New Kind of Love to Me" and "Livin' in the Sunlight, Lovin' in the Moonlight" in both versions. Chevalier, Claudette Colbert and Andrée Corday were also in the French version of the film. Chevalier received a Best Actor Academy Award nomination for his collective work on this film and The Love Parade (See Entry).
Pierre Mirande, son of an impoverished French family, makes a living by acting as guide to Mrs. Billings and her daughter, Barbara, tourists in Venice. Although Barbara falls in love with him, her suitor, Ronnie, and her father see him as a fortune-hunting foreigner, and accordingly offer him a job in Mr. Billings' chewing gum factory in New York. Forced to live in a dingy boardinghouse, Pierre is given the toughest work in the plant, but Barbara assures him that bluff and fast thinking are necessities in American business. With his humorous songs, he captivates his landlady, Toinette, and the maid, Jennie, but falls asleep on the night he is expected to attend Barbara's party. Wrongfully accused of spilling rum on some chewing gum samples, Pierre is discharged; he is later reinstated and promoted when he sells the idea of rum-flavored chewing gum with his own advertising lyrics. Insulted, Barbara plans to marry Ronnie, but Pierre kidnaps her aboard a ...
Pierre Mirande, son of an impoverished French family, makes a living by acting as guide to Mrs. Billings and her daughter, Barbara, tourists in Venice. Although Barbara falls in love with him, her suitor, Ronnie, and her father see him as a fortune-hunting foreigner, and accordingly offer him a job in Mr. Billings' chewing gum factory in New York. Forced to live in a dingy boardinghouse, Pierre is given the toughest work in the plant, but Barbara assures him that bluff and fast thinking are necessities in American business. With his humorous songs, he captivates his landlady, Toinette, and the maid, Jennie, but falls asleep on the night he is expected to attend Barbara's party. Wrongfully accused of spilling rum on some chewing gum samples, Pierre is discharged; he is later reinstated and promoted when he sells the idea of rum-flavored chewing gum with his own advertising lyrics. Insulted, Barbara plans to marry Ronnie, but Pierre kidnaps her aboard a speedboat.
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