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The Merry Widow
Directed by	Michael Curtiz
Written by	Victor Léon (libretto) Leo Stein (libretto)
Screenplay by	Michael Curtiz
Based on	The Merry Widow 1905 operetta by Franz Lehár Victor Léon (libretto) Leo Stein (libretto)
Produced by	Gyula Schönberger
Starring	Mihály Várkonyi Berta Valero Endre Boross Árpád id. Latabár Miklós Szomory József Bánhidy
Cinematography	Eduard Hoesch
Music by	Franz Lehár
Release date	1918 (1918)
Running time	70 minutes
Country	Hungary
Language	Silent

The Merry Widow (Hungarian: A Víg özvegy) is a 1918 Hungarian musical film directed by Michael Curtiz. It is based on the 1905 operetta by Franz Lehár.

Plot summary

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Cast

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Mihály Várkonyi as Danilo
Berta Valero as Glavári Hanna
Endre Boross as Nyegus
Árpád id. Latabár as Zéta Mirko, montenegrói követ
Miklós Szomory
József Bánhidy

References

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External links

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The Merry Widow at IMDb
The Merry Widow at the TCM Movie Database

v t e Films directed by Michael Curtiz
1910s	The Last Bohemian (1912) Today and Tomorrow (1912) Captive Souls (1913) My Husband's Getting Married (1913) The Exile (1914) The Borrowed Babies (1914) The Princess in a Nightrobe (1914) Prisoner of the Night (1914) Bánk Bán (1914) Golddigger (1914) Seven of Spades (1916) The Strength of the Fatherland (1916) The Karthauzer (1916) The Black Rainbow (1916) The Wolf (1916) The Medic (1916) Mr. Doctor (1916) Master Zoard (1917) The Red Samson (1917) The Last Dawn (1917) Spring in Winter (1917) Tartar Invasion (1917) Secret of St. Job Forest (1917) Nobody's Son (1917) The Charlatan (1917) A Penny's History (1917) The Fishing Bell (1917) Peace's Road (1917) Jean the Tenant (1917) Earth's Man (1917) The Colonel (1918) The Merry Widow (1918) Magic Waltz (1918) A skorpió I. (1918) The Devil (1918) Lulu (1918) Lu, the Coquette (1918) Júdás (1918) The Ugly Boy (1918) Alraune (1918) 99-es számú bérkocsi (1918) The Sunflower Woman (1918) Liliom (1919) The Lady with the Black Gloves (1919)
1920s	Boccaccio (1920) The Star of Damascus (1920) The Scourge of God (1920) Mrs. Tutti Frutti (1921) Good and Evil (1921) Mrs. Dane's Confession (1921) Labyrinth of Horror (1921) Sodom and Gomorrah (1922) Young Medardus (1923) Avalanche (1923) Nameless (1923) A Deadly Game (1924) General Babka (1924) Harun al Raschid (1924) The Moon of Israel (1924) Red Heels (1925) Cab No. 13 (1926) The Golden Butterfly (1926) The Third Degree (1926) A Million Bid (1927) The Desired Woman (1927) Good Time Charley (1927) Tenderloin (1928) Noah's Ark (1928) Glad Rag Doll (1929) Madonna of Avenue A (1929) The Gamblers (1929) Hearts in Exile (1929)
1930s	Mammy (1930) Under a Texas Moon (1930) The Matrimonial Bed (1930) Bright Lights (1930) A Soldier's Plaything (1930) River's End (1930) Demon of the Sea (1931) God's Gift to Women (1931) The Mad Genius (1931) The Woman from Monte Carlo (1932) Alias the Doctor (1932) The Strange Love of Molly Louvain (1932) Doctor X (1932) The Cabin in the Cotton (1932) 20,000 Years in Sing Sing (1932) Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933) The Keyhole (1933) Private Detective 62 (1933) Goodbye Again (1933) The Kennel Murder Case (1933) Female (1933) Mandalay (1934) Jimmy the Gent (1934) The Key (1934) British Agent (1934) The Case of the Curious Bride (1935) Black Fury (1935) Front Page Woman (1935) Little Big Shot (1935) Captain Blood (1935) The Walking Dead (1936) The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936) Stolen Holiday (1937) Mountain Justice (1937) Kid Galahad (1937) The Perfect Specimen (1937) Gold Is Where You Find It (1938) The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) Four's a Crowd (1938) Four Daughters (1938) Angels with Dirty Faces (1938) Dodge City (1939) Daughters Courageous (1939) The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939) Four Wives (1939)
1940s	Virginia City (1940) The Sea Hawk (1940) Santa Fe Trail (1940) The Sea Wolf (1941) Dive Bomber (1941) Captains of the Clouds (1942) Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942) Casablanca (1942) Mission to Moscow (1943) This Is the Army (1943) Passage to Marseille (1944) Janie (1944) Roughly Speaking (1945) Mildred Pierce (1945) Night and Day (1946) Life with Father (1946) The Unsuspected (1947) Romance on the High Seas (1948) My Dream Is Yours (1949) Flamingo Road (1949) The Lady Takes a Sailor (1949)
1950s	Young Man with a Horn (1950) Bright Leaf (1950) The Breaking Point (1950) Force of Arms (1951) Jim Thorpe – All-American (1951) I'll See You in My Dreams (1951) The Story of Will Rogers (1952) The Jazz Singer (1952) Trouble Along the Way (1953) The Boy from Oklahoma (1954) The Egyptian (1954) White Christmas (1954) We're No Angels (1955) The Scarlet Hour (1956) The Vagabond King (1956) The Best Things in Life Are Free (1956) The Helen Morgan Story (1957) The Proud Rebel (1958) King Creole (1958) The Hangman (1959) The Man in the Net (1959)
1960s	The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1960) A Breath of Scandal (1960) Francis of Assisi (1961) The Comancheros (1961)
Short films	Jön az öcsém (1919) Sons of Liberty (1939)
Productions	Bright Lights (1935)

v t e Franz Lehár's The Merry Widow (1905)
Films	The Merry Widow (1918 silent Hungarian) The Merry Widow (1925 silent) The Merry Widow (1934) The Merry Widow (1952) The Merry Widow (1962 German)
Other	The Merry Widow (ballet) The Merry Widow discography