Stocks and laurels

Stocks and Laurel is the title of a comedy by Robert E. Horney and Walter Firner .

The premiere took place on February 9, 1967 in the comedy in Marquardt in Stuttgart. The last performance was on March 19, 1967. With Heinz Erhardt in the lead role, the play was not played in any other theater.

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The 54-year-old bank director McLaughlin wants to realize his childhood dream and become a theater actor. The drama school at which he is presented for training also operates a theater stage. At first, theater director Brown is not enthusiastic about McLaughlin's request because of his age. However, Brown drops his objections when he learns about McLaughlin's profession. A financially strong drama student comes in very handy in the financially tight theater. The audition turns into a fiasco for McLaughlin, but the theater director gives him a semester to develop. McLaughlin then agreed to finance the next theater production. In the new play, the drama "The Schmonz and the Earthworms", McLaughlin is assigned the role of a servant who goes through all the acts in silence and says a single sentence at the end of the play. However, it turns out differently than planned, because McLaughlin has to step in for the main actor in the new play, who was signed to Broadway at short notice. The premiere is a complete success. However, McLaughlin does not shine as a tragedy, rather he tears the audience to salmon volleys with his unintentionally comical play. For this reason, McLaughlin is hired as an actor. McLaughlin can't remember what he said on the night of the premiere, but luckily his son-in-law Mike recorded the entire performance on tape.

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• Director: Bertold Sakmann
• Stage design: Karl-Heinz Franke

• Main actor:
  • Heinz Erhardt : Deputy Bank Director Alfred McLaughlin
  • Rolf Wanka : Theater director Thomas Brown
  • Franz Schafheitlin : General Bank Director Edmond Nash
  • Ensemble (remaining roles): Lotte Neumayer , Edith Behleit , Daphna Rosenthal , Beryl Sharland , Ingeborg Solbrig , Silvia van Spronsen , Thomas Fischer, Jonny Goertz , Dieter Henkel , Volker Spengler

criticism

“Otherwise it is hardly worth saying a lot about stocks and laurels . The text in which stupidly and with much superfluous filling is demonstrated how a bank director is forced to the stage, and which in the process exudes thin bile against the mischief of the absurd theater, mocks a little about the American matriarchy and otherwise relies on the fact that a leading actor will make ends meet - this text has about as much to do with the success of the evening as the chrome trim on a car has with its speed. "

- STUTTGARTER ZEITUNG

Television broadcast

On April 27, 1967, the television recording of the play was broadcast on ZDF for the first time.

• TV director: Günther Meyer-Goldenstädt
• Camera: Kurt-Oskar Herting
• Editor: Karlheinz Funke

In the television recording, the roles - partly different from the theater roles - were cast as follows:

• Heinz Erhardt: Deputy Bank Director Alfred McLaughlin
• Hannes Tannert : Theater director Thomas Brown
• Franz Schafheitlin: General Bank Director Edmond Nash
• Beryl Sharland: Theater Director Mildred Watson Brown
• Gefion Helmke : Mary McLaughlin
• Wolfgang Eger : Harry Brown
• Harald Dietl : Mike Patrick
• Ursula van der Wielen : Dorothy Patrick
• Jonny Goertz: Henry
• Ingeborg Solbrig: Ellen Stevenson
• Boris Mattern : Mac David
• Ingrid Detter : Leslie
• Edith Behleit: Lizzy, secretary
• Gustav Haner : Dr. Bevan
• Ellinor von Landesen : cashier

Web links

• Shares and laurel in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Shares and laurels with Heinz Erhardt Friends

Individual evidence

1. ^ SDR evening show of February 15, 1967.
2. ↑ Hellmuth Karasek in the Stuttgarter Zeitung of February 13, 1967.