The Boudoir Diplomat

The Boudoir Diplomat is a 1930 American pre-Code romantic comedy film directed by Malcolm St. Clair, produced and distributed by Universal Pictures, from the play The Command To Love by Fritz Gottwald and Rudolph Lothar.

[3] Ian Keith plays a French military attaché in Madrid who romantically pursues the wives of various government officials.

According to Mordaunt Hall of the New York Times, The Boudoir Diplomat is a “diverting comedy [that] more than meets one's expectations, particularly when one considers the censorable incidents—so far as films are concerned—of the stage offering.” Acknowledging that the stage version is superior to the screen adaption, Hall notes that director St. Clair salvaged the “essentials” of the play including its humour.

It was directed by Marcel De Sano and released in 1931, and is not likely to have been screened publicly in the United States.

It was co-directed by George Melford (he would direct the 1931 Spanish-language version of Drácula) with Enrique Tovar Ávalos, and starred Miguel Faust Rocha, Lia Torá and Celia Montalván.