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Frieda Hotzfelt
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Bruno Mahler
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Sieglinde Lessing
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Al Shean | ... |
Dr. Walter Lessing
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Ernst Weber
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Joseph Cawthorn | ... |
Hans Uppman
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Hobart Bosworth | ... |
Cornelius
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Sara Haden | ... |
Martha
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Marjorie Main | ... |
Anna
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Roger Imhof | ... |
Burgomaster
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Kirschner
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Zipfelhuber
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Fuzzy Knight | ... |
Nick
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Constantly quarreling couple decide to try the jealousy angle when a naive young couple comes along.
This was an excellent adaptation to film from the stage hit by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II. The opening Alpine scene reminds you of a later film, "Sound of Music". A strong screenplay by Howard Young and Billy Wilder that avoided becoming too saccharine.Gloria Swanson was given top billing as a tempestuous German Prima Donna and she did all her own singing which was quite good. She really was a hoot in her role and she really was a natural for comedy. John Boles plays the show's lyric writer and is suave as ever and sung on his own rather well too. Douglas Montgomery is fun to watch. He's a little bit on the goofy side and his songs were dubbed by a James O'Brien. June Lang played the heroine trying to break into show business but fails. Her vocals were dubbed as well by a Betty Hiestand. Ms. Lang showed great effort but like her character she played, doesn't quite cut it. Perhaps she took the same advice and went home. We never heard from her again. Al Shean is also a classic act as the Poppa.