A Woman Who Knows What She Wants
| A Woman Who Knows What She Wants | |
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| Directed by | Victor Janson |
| Written by | Peter Franke Alfred Grünwald (libretto) Ernst Hasselbach Louis Verneuil (libretto) |
| Starring | Lil Dagover Anton Edthofer Anton Walbrook |
| Cinematography | Eduard Hoesch Jan Stallich |
| Music by | Oscar Straus |
Production company | Slovia Film |
Release date | 31 August 1934 |
| Country | Germany |
| Language | German |
A Woman Who Knows What She Wants (German: Eine Frau, die weiß, was sie will) is a 1934 German musical comedy film directed by Victor Janson and starring Lil Dagover, Anton Edthofer and Anton Walbrook.[1] It is an adaptation of a 1932 stage musical of the same title, with music by Oscar Straus. A separate Czech version was also released that year, made at the Barrandov Studios in Prague.
The musical was adapted again as a 1958 West German film of the same title.
Cast
- Lil Dagover as Mona Cavallini, Revuestar
- Anton Edthofer as Erik Mattisson, industrialist
- Maria Beling as Karin, his daughter
- Anton Walbrook as Axel Basse
- Kurt Vespermann as Peter Kasten
- Hans Junkermann as Dr. Frank Heyberg, lawyer
- Werner Finck as Kalmann, press secretary
- Hubert von Meyerinck as Lynge, banker
- Inge John as Kalman's secretary
- Leo Peukert as Almers, director
- Pepi Glöckner-Kramer as Babette, wardrobe mistress
- Franz Scharwenka as President of Paranarena
- C.W. Tetting as his Adjutant
- Michael von Newlinsky as Prim, Inspizient
References
- ^ Bock & Berfelder, p. 78
Bibliography
- Bock, Hans-Michael and Bergfelder, Tim. The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema. Berghahn Books, 2009.
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