Leading lady Anny Ahlers walks off the set of the musical comedy she's starring in. The company notices Lien Deyers at the local hotel and decide she should star. First she has t get approval from the head of the studio.... who's traveling, so his son, Gustav Fröhlich, gets to make the call. She's ready for the casting couch, but he's all business. He tells her that he'd rather deal with the professionals, even if they are crazy, and she would be better off being married and raising children. She, however, wants to be famous.
Max Ophüls's first feature is a good studio film, a musical comedy run at high speed, with a pre-code vibe, some good gags thrown in, and good camerawork by Karl Puh. Miss Deyers' career had its days numbered. She took UFA to court over her contract and won, which did not endear her to the studio bosses, particularly Fritz Lang, with whom she had already clashed in her first film. More than that, although cast as a simple German girl, she was half Jewish, and her husband, Alfred Ziesler, was Jewish. So they fled to England and America, where her career stopped dead in its tracks. She vanished from sight. At the time of her death in 1982 at 72, she had been married five times.
Max Ophüls's first feature is a good studio film, a musical comedy run at high speed, with a pre-code vibe, some good gags thrown in, and good camerawork by Karl Puh. Miss Deyers' career had its days numbered. She took UFA to court over her contract and won, which did not endear her to the studio bosses, particularly Fritz Lang, with whom she had already clashed in her first film. More than that, although cast as a simple German girl, she was half Jewish, and her husband, Alfred Ziesler, was Jewish. So they fled to England and America, where her career stopped dead in its tracks. She vanished from sight. At the time of her death in 1982 at 72, she had been married five times.