Devil-May-Care

{{short description|1929 film}}

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{{Infobox film

| name = Devil-May-Care

| image = File:Devil May Care poster.jpg

| caption = Theatrical release poster

| director = Sidney Franklin

| producer =

| based_on = {{based on|La Bataille de dames, ou un duel en amour|Ernest Legouvé and Eugène Scribe}}

| writer = Hanns Kräly
Zelda Sears

| screenplay = Richard Schayer

| starring = Ramon Novarro
Dorothy Jordan
Marion Harris
John Miljan
William Humphrey

| music = Herbert Stothart
William Axt

| cinematography = Merritt B. Gerstad

| editing = Conrad A. Nervig

| studio = Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

| distributor = Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

| released = {{Film date|1929|12|27|}}

| runtime = 97 minutes

| country = United States

| language = English

| budget = $487,000{{Citation|title=The Eddie Mannix Ledger|publisher=Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study|place=Los Angeles, California}}.

| gross = $1,416,000 (worldwide rentals)

}}

Devil-May-Care is a 1929 American Pre-Code musical film directed by Sidney Franklin with a Technicolor sequence of the Albertina Rasch Dancers. The film was released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer on December 27, 1929 and was Ramon Novarro's talkie debut.[http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/D/DevilMayCare1929.html Progressive Silent Film List: Devil-May-Care] at silentera.com[http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=3731 The AFI Catalog of Feature Films: Devil-May-Care]

The film is based upon the 1851 play La Bataille de dames, ou un duel en amour by Ernest Legouvé and Eugène Scribe. It is known by a variety of other names, including Battle of the Ladies (the film's working title), Der Leutnant des Kaisers (Austria), Der jüngste Leutnant (Germany), Il tenente di Napoleone (Italy), and O lohagos tis aftokratorikis frouras (Greece).

File:Devil May Care lobby card.jpg