Maurice Chevalier under contract with Paramount, his name was so recognized that his passport was featured in the Marx Brothers film "Monkey Business" (1931). In this sequence, each brother uses Chevalier's passport, and tries to sneak off the ocean liner where they were stowaways by claiming to be the singer—with unique renditions of "You Brought a New Kind of Love to Me" with its line "If the nightingales could sing like you". In 1931, Chevalier starred in a musical called "The Smiling Lieutenant" with Claudette Colbert and Miriam Hopkins. Despite the disdain audiences held for musicals in 1931, it proved a successful
Music for Stowaways Stowaways", renamed "Dinsongs for Films (Music for Stowaways)", for film producers and television companies to potentially use as soundtrack music. An alternate version of the album with several different tracks, "Music for Listening To", was released as an LP later on in 1981, pressed by Virgin in the UK mostly for export sales, although it was also sold in the UK. Bob Last is credited as executive producer and packaging designer on this version. Despite originally being a limited edition, Virgin re-released "Music for Stowaways" on cassette in 1988, while on 9 September 1997, Virgin's sub-label Caroline Records released a