---
title: 'Monte Carlo (1930)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Ernst Lubitsch'
released: '1930-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 94
genres:
  - 'Music'
  - 'Romance'
countries:
  - 'United States'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/monte-carlo-1930'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0021153/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Monte Carlo (1930)

1930 · 94 min · Music, Romance · United States


## Synopsis

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. The film is notable for introducing the song "Beyond the Blue Horizon", which was written for the film and is first performed by MacDonald and a chorus on the soundtrack as she escapes on the train through the countryside. Monte Carlo was hailed by critics as a masterpiece of the newly emerging musical film genre. The screenplay was based on the Booth Tarkington novel Monsieur Beaucaire. Due to the film being published in 1930, it entered the public domain on January 1, 2026.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Ernst Lubitsch](https://cinepixo.com/people/ernst-lubitsch)
- **Producer:** [Ernst Lubitsch](https://cinepixo.com/people/ernst-lubitsch)
- **Screenplay:** [Ernest Vajda](https://cinepixo.com/people/ernest-vajda)
- **Original Music Composer:** [W. Franke Harling](https://cinepixo.com/people/w-franke-harling)
- **Director of Photography:** [Victor Milner](https://cinepixo.com/people/victor-milner)
- **Editor:** [Merrill G. White](https://cinepixo.com/people/merrill-g-white)

## Cast

- [Albert Conti](https://cinepixo.com/people/albert-conti)
- [ZaSu Pitts](https://cinepixo.com/people/zasu-pitts)
- [Tyler Brooke](https://cinepixo.com/people/tyler-brooke)
- [John Carroll](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-carroll)
- [Jeanette MacDonald](https://cinepixo.com/people/jeanette-macdonald)
- [Claud Allister](https://cinepixo.com/people/claud-allister)
- [Frances Dee](https://cinepixo.com/people/frances-dee)
- [Rolfe Sedan](https://cinepixo.com/people/rolfe-sedan)
- [Helen Gardner](https://cinepixo.com/people/helen-gardner)
- [Billy Bevan](https://cinepixo.com/people/billy-bevan)
- [Lionel Belmore](https://cinepixo.com/people/lionel-belmore)
- [Edgar Norton](https://cinepixo.com/people/edgar-norton)
- [Jack Buchanan](https://cinepixo.com/people/jack-buchanan)
- [Sidney Bracey](https://cinepixo.com/people/sidney-bracey)
- [John Roche](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-roche)

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