Champagne Waltz

{{short description|1937 film by A. Edward Sutherland}}

{{Infobox film

| name = Champagne Waltz

| image = Champagne Waltz.jpg

| caption =

| director = A. Edward Sutherland

| producer =Harlan Thompson
William LeBaron

| writer = Don Hartman
Frank Butler
Billy Wilder
Hy Kraft

| narrator =

| starring = Gladys Swarthout
Fred MacMurray
Jack Oakie
Fritz Leiber

| music = Multiple contributors including Oscar Hammerstein

| cinematography =William C. Mellor

| editing =Paul Weatherwax

| studio = Paramount Pictures

| distributor = Paramount Pictures

| released = {{Film date|1937|2|5}}

| runtime = 87 minutes

| country = United States

| language = English

| budget =

}}

Champagne Waltz is a 1937 American comedy film directed by A. Edward Sutherland and starring Gladys Swarthout, Fred MacMurray and Jack Oakie. The theme of the film was inspired by the eponymous hit song, written in 1934, by the compositional pair Con Conrad and Ben Oakland.{{Cite web |title=THE CHAMPAGNE WALTZ |url=https://www.fleischerallstars.com/the-champagne-waltz.html |access-date=2024-04-07 |website=Fleischer AllStars |language=en}} It is one of five movies produced by Paramount in the 1930s featuring Swarthout, a very popular Metropolitan Opera mezzo-soprano. The studio was attempting to build on the popularity of Grace Moore, another opera singer, who had also expanded her talents into movies.{{cite news |title=Champagne Waltz (Paramount) |url=http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,770564,00.html |quote=The perennial and expensive effort to make a Grace Moore out of Gladys Swarthout seemed to have more logic some time ago when Miss Moore was a more important box-office draw.|work=Time magazine |date=January 25, 1937 |accessdate=2013-12-21 }} The film's sets were designed by the art director Ernst Fegté working with Hans Dreier. The costume designer was Travis Banton.