Last night's girl
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| Original title | Last night's girl |
| Country of production | German Empire |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1938 |
| length | 91 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK unchecked |
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| Director | Peter Paul Brewer |
| script | Karl Georg Külb |
| production | Ufa |
| music | Werner Bochmann |
| camera | Robert Baberske |
| cut | Fritz Stapenhorst |
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Last Night's Girl is a comedy film from 1938. It was directed by Peter Paul Brauer , who was also the line producer . In the leading roles played Gusti Huber and Willy Fritsch , the leading supporting roles embodied Rudolf Platte and Ingeborg von Kusserow .
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Lord Stanley Stalton is a conscientious attaché in the diplomatic corps of the Foreign Office in London , who prefers his profession to private pleasure and thus attracts the ridicule of his colleagues. Lady Darnmore, a respected hostess of elegant salons and in turn associated with Stalton's boss, Lord Radley, invites Stalton to one of her events to couple him with Evelyn, the only daughter of the banker Barrow. Stalton, entrusted by Lord Radley with an extensive work project for the American entrepreneur Jack Miller, cancels at short notice, whereupon Lady Darnmore sends him a box ticket for the opera. Evelyn receives the second box ticket, who is sent to the opera by her mother in the hope of getting to know Stalton better there and playing a good game.
From now on a comedy of confusion develops.
On the way home, Lord Stanley Stalton accidentally meets his old school friend Stanley Chestnut, who has just been thrown out of Barrow's bank after an interview with banker. Chestnut uses a trick to steal the opera card from him and meets Evelyn in the box, who takes him for Lord Stanley Stalton because of his first name. Both are immediately sympathetic and spend the rest of the evening together in a wine bar, although Stanley Chestnut is shocked to note that Evelyn is apparently the daughter of the man who just expelled him that afternoon. At the same time, banker Barrow filed a complaint with the police after his domestic servant told him that a pearl necklace had been stolen from Evelyn's room. Scotland Yard immediately begins the search for the thief and, in the dead of night, pursues a young woman who spontaneously escapes through an open patio door into the bedroom and bed of a young man sleeping there - Lord Stanley Stalton. She can deceive the inspector who is pursuing her and pretends to be Stalton's wife. However, Stalton, woken by the noise and taken by surprise by her presence, is soon taken by the young woman. These two people like each other straight away, but the woman quickly leaves his house after Stalton has put her pearl necklace on her.
When Stalton arrives at his place of work the next morning, he receives a warning from his superior. The pursuit of a couple of thieves and the fact that Lord Stanley Stalton and his supposed wife were disturbed in their sleep as a result have reached the press. Because everyone in London knows that Stalton isn't married at all, the diplomatic corps' reputation seems sullied. The Barrow couple also reads these headlines and assumes that Evelyn lost her innocence on the night spent with "Stanley". He should bear the consequences for this and marry Evelyn. When Stanley Chestnut accidentally calls, he is invited to dinner at the Barrows' premises, assuming he is Stalton.
In the meantime, the jewel thief turns out to be Jean Miller, daughter of the American entrepreneur, whose night outing was only due to the desire to leave home and experience something exciting. A private detective set on her brings her back home. The next day she and her father attended a reception given by Lady Darnmore, at which Lord Stalton also stayed. For his part, Stalton is amazed and thinks the finance mogul and his daughter are the wanted couple of thieves. He ensnares Jean and secretly steals the pearl necklace to bring it back to Evelyn Barrow. When he arrives at the Barrows he is already expected after the originally and mistakenly invited Stanley Chesnut has been expelled from the house again without being able to explain himself beforehand. When Stalton is admitted to Evelyn, the confusion between the two Stanleys is cleared up, but Evelyn asks him not to reveal anything to the parents, as she loves Stanley Chestnut, but knows how much her father despises him. The pearl necklace also turns out to be not stolen, but mislaid. Back at the Foreign Office, Stalton learns the real identity of Jean Miller and decides to bring the pearl necklace back to her hotel. There he declares his affection for her, but is initially rejected.
All protagonists are guests at another reception by Lady Darnmore. Evelyn Barrow and Lord Stalton keep up appearances without knowing that Evelyn's father is planning to announce their engagement. When Jean, who is also present, finds out about it, she uses a trick to win Stalton back, and her father then announces their engagement. Banker Barrow, who then realizes the mix-up and assumes that his daughter has lost her innocence to Stanley Chestnut, now agrees to their marriage. There is a happy ending for everyone involved.
Production notes
The shooting of Last Night's Girl lasted from the end of January 1938 to the beginning of April 1938 and took place mainly in the Ufa studios in Berlin-Tempelhof on Oberlandstrasse. For the few outdoor and night shots, the film team drove to the Berlin area. Archive footage from the London cityscape was also used, for example of the changing of the guard in front of Buckingham Palace , as well as for the opening scene of the film, in which Hilde Hildebrand and Willy Fritsch are sitting in a London taxi with moving images running in the background. However, the recording was made in front of a screen in the studio.
In the presence of the main actors, the film premiered on April 2, 1938 in the Dresden Prinzess-Theater , but was not censored until April 12, 1938 and was rated “artistically valuable”. On Maundy Thursday, April 14, 1938, the Berlin premiere took place in the Gloria-Palast after the cultural film Mannesmann by Walter Ruttmann had been shown in the opening program .
The film's assistant director was Boleslaw Barlog .
useful information
In the role of an attaché candidate, Curd Jürgens also took part in the recordings as an extra . He received a fee of 1,200 Reichsmarks for this .
Reviews
"And we laughed out loud for two hours, even though the comedians in this film only have episode roles"
"The audience took this Ufa film ... with warm and happy applause"
"Mistake and love comedy from the diplomatic milieu of London."
Web links
- The girl from last night in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Last night's girl at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ^ The UFA book, edited by Hans-Michael Bock / Michael Töteberg, 1992 Verlag Zweiausendeins, p. 370
- ↑ cf. Filmblatt Nr. 39, Ed. Cinegraph Babelsberg eV, Berlin-Brandenburg Center for Film Research, 14th year, spring 2009, p. 61
- ↑ Curd Jürgens estate at the Deutsches Filminstitut, accessed on July 3, 2019
- ↑ Last night's girl. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed July 4, 2019 .