cynthiahost
This in a way was equivalent to the American Broadway Melody of 1929 of Germany.I though it was made in Austria.It has that flavor.The focus is the making of a stage musical.As they would put it, Operetta.Years later this would be adapted into a stage musical in that country, Willi Forst and Oscar Karlwells portray brothers,who are librettist of a produced stage musical.Their friend is a composer of the operetta ,played by Walter Janssen.The actress in this m musical is played by Irene Eisenger,who's Jewish heritage forced her to leave Germany by 1940.You see a lot of interesting numbers on the stage,the scene where she is singing to a toy soldier played by Tibor Halmay, and they both dance.The marching and dancing of chorus girls playing soldier with Irene, in the middle.Paul Horbinger plays a small part of the coachmen.Cuddles Sakall in one of his early film roles before he moved to the untied states,plays the director.Acting the same way he would act in American films.Gretl Theimer plays the s sister Nicky and Vicky,that they keep a secret from Walter Janssen ,due to his ways with women.During the rehearsal Walter has a dry spell and having trouble to finish the musical.So he has party ,which no one will go to .It turn out that the sister of the two brothers show up and then inspires Walter to complete the musical.At Gretls' birthday and a lawyer reveals to the brother that she was never their blood sister .Walter is waiting for Gretl to show up for to sing the song that she was inspire to do in his place.Both brother want to marry her ,but, by the time they go to the theater it's too late .Good early talking Euro musical.This was the first German film to be release in the united states with subtitles 08/28/14
passer
I saw this movie freguently when it was first released, both as an opportunity to practise my German and as an opportunity to hear the beautiful music. It should be noted that the banquet scene contains one of the most glaring failures of continuity ever in a movie. I do hope that a negative still exists and that someone will make a video of it
