Plot summary
Countess Helene Mara is set to marry Duke Otto Von Liebenheim, but she walks out of the ceremony and boards a train for Monte Carlo with Bertha, her maid, and 10,000 francs. She checks into an expensive hotel, meaning to win a fortune at roulette. At the casino her luck runs hot and then leaves her with nothing. Count Rudolph Falliere notices her and tries to introduce himself, but she turns him away, even when he sings to her over the telephone. Through her hairdresser, Paul, he learns that the countess has no money. When Helene complains of a headache, Rudolph, with Paul's help, presents himself as a hairdresser, treats her, and is taken on, then kept on as her chauffeur and footman.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Monte Carlo (1930)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- The film's best-known song, "Beyond the Blue Horizon," written by Richard A. Whiting and W. Franke Harling with lyrics by Leo Robin, became an immediate hit record for Jeanette MacDonald on the film's release and charted again in the 1970s in a cover by Lou Christie.
