Starring: Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald, Charles Ruggles, Charles Butterworth, Myrna Loy

Hosted by Caroline Golum and Cristina Cacioppo. Followed by an afterparty in Trees Lounge with a DJ set of pre-code era tunes from Owen Kline plus our signature cocktail special “Blonde in Hell.”

Before the Hays Code slammed the door on naughty jokes, sexual frankness and irreverent romance, there was Love Me Tonight (1932)—one of the most saucy and charming musicals ever put on film.

Crooner Maurice Chevalier stars as a Parisian tailor hot on the trail of an aristocrat who refuses to pay his bills. When he tails his debtor to a tony chateau, hijinks ensue: the humble tradesman is mistaken for a baron and falls head-over-heels for Princess Jeanette (Jeanette MacDonald).

Directed with dazzling imagination by Rouben Mamoulian, Love Me Tonight turns the sounds of a waking city into music and sends songs drifting across the French countryside in sequences that still feel remarkably modern. With sly double entendres and playful sexual innuendo, it also gleefully pokes fun at class privilege, suggesting that charm and chemistry matter far more than titles and pedigrees.