This movie was made a year after I was born. I was 1, this is ow old the film is.It's changed a little bit from the original.Count Tassilo has been changed to Michael, Played by Rudolph Schock. Like the original Austrian stage musical that premiered in 1924, Hans Moser portrays the valet but his name has been changed From Panizek to Ferdinand. Lucie English plays her lady in waiting, who also played Marika Roekks lady in dances of the king in 42 and was one of the peasants in," Why The Larks Sing,"1938 another survivor of the Nazicoust .Baron Koloman Zsupan is no longer a Land Owner,played by the Danny Kaye , minus singing, of Germany and Austria Gunther Philips. He is poor as a church mouse and hangs around a café and looks like he comes from an Austrian community theater production of ,"Guys and Dolls",.A new character that was not in the play version was added.Dragomir, played by Kurt Grosskurth , who plays an admirer who want to marry Mariza. Now Rudolph Schock is a change from the 1932 version of the movie since Herbert Marischka, I never saw this, was not young. When he did this he was 50.Mariza has a chasing admirer and old fat fart Dragonmir, who want to marry her.She has an British admirer who wants her, who only shows up on the phone while Hans then Lucie answers the phone.Mariza is fed up with this. So she calls on the phone to the news paper that she's going to get married , fake marriage, alleging to Zsupan , who isn't rich in this version. Now the focus is on Zsupan hanging around the café bumming cigarettes from people. He buys a lottery draw and wins a prize. Lisa, Michaels sister in town,is also at the café too and she buys a lottery draw and also wins. When they both pick up their prize each of them thought it might be money but instead its a pet sheep. Both fall for each other and talk in the park.Back a Marizas farm, Dragonmir continues to to persuade her to marry him with dance and song and a bunch of Hungarian Rapsody dancers. It's obviously that Rimsky Corsicoff was popular in Austria Hungary or what used to be both.Well, Michael the overseer of Mariza farm has never met her . But she see's him for the first time from the window as he's fusing at the Hungarian Dancers for not being at work.Back at the city Lisa is at the same café with her pet Sheep, then he shows up with his pet sheep and they get together. All of a sudden the managers brings them supper they didn't ask for. they quickly move to another table and the waiters move the food. Then the manager shows him the newspaper that about the management of him and Mariza being engaged.He's so surprised . his girl friend Lisa, played by dark hair pick tailed Renate Ewart, get's mad at him and them leaves him but he doesn't care cause now he thinks he's rich.So back to Mariza's place , she decides to check on Michael as a possible marriage candidate. So she disguises her self as a peasant girl to check on him. He meets her and thinks she's looking for a job. Bare footed he buys her some Hungarian dance boots.They talk and drink at the pub. He got her a room but she sneaks out. The next day they meet around the well.Then later he ask her to meet her at the café.His sister Lisa shows up for a visit. but when she Mariza sees them both at the same time , she thinks that he with another women . so she leaves and tells the hostess to give him back the red boots he bought her that she had given to the hostess. When he checks things the hostess gives him the boots and tells him what happen. He doesn't know why she turned him down.She back as her Countess self having a dinner party with her snobby friends. Dragonmir keeps bugging her. Then all of a sudden Zsupan shows up claiming his right. She announces that he is her fiancé.Dragonmir later tries to start a fight with him.Michael makes a demand to see the countess.He finally does and he realize that Mariza was the girl he in love with. He's angry and disappointed. The next day As Zsupan is horse riding back wards with a fox hunt suit and hat on.He sees Lisa walking around the estate .She still mad at him and knocks him off of his horse.but later they both make up and start to rekindle their interest.Michael leaves his palace in her estate to move into the inn.Dragonmir sees that in the window of the barn and tells Mariza about it.He quickly goes to Michael but Michael doesn't want her because she's not the women who was the peasant.So as he's in his inn room she disguises herself again . He show up out of the room and he loves her again. They have a Rymskie Corsicoff type wedding.
Review of Gräfin Mariza
