Musical Comedy Time
Season 1 • Episode 5: The Merry Widow • Watch with subtitles
Episode 5: The Merry Widow
November 27, 1950 • 60 min
Hanna Glawari, the merry widow, faces a dilemma. Pontevedro, her native country, will be left bankrupt if she weds a foreigner. An Embassy plot to marry her off to the debonair Count Danilo Danilovitch is complicated by the secret affair which has developed between the French attaché and the Ambassador's wife. This light-hearted tale of political and amorous intrigue unfolds amidst the gaiety of high society in turn-of-the-century Paris.
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