Invitation to the Waltz (1935)

Directors

Paul Merzbach

Cast

Lilian Harvey

The story

In London, Jenny, an aspiring ballet dancer, meets an aide to the Duke of Wuerttemberg who is in Britain for a marriage alliance and financial treaty to supply troops to Britain for the war against Napoleon. After being discovered by an Italian impresario she goes to Venice to be trained as a great dancer. The visiting Duke of Wuerttemberg becomes fascinated with her and engages her to perform at the state opera house in his capital of Stuttgart, hoping also to make her his mistress.

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