The model husband (1937)
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| Original title | The model husband |
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| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1937 |
| length | 95 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
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| Director | Wolfgang Liebeneiner |
| script |
Jacob Geis Hans Albin Heinz Rühmann (anonymous) |
| production | Otto Ernst Lubitz for Imagoton-Film GmbH |
| music | Hans Sommer |
| camera | Werner Bohne |
| cut | Gustav Lohse |
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The model husband is a comedy staged by Wolfgang Liebeneiner in 1937 with Heinz Rühmann in a prime role. The film premiered on October 13, 1937 in Berlin and was banned from young people .
action
The London banker William Bartlett is an extremely meticulous person, everything in his life has to have a fixed order. According to this principle, he divided the course of each of his days. He even adheres precisely to the one-hour tennis game prescribed for him by his doctor. When he leaves the tennis club one day, Bartlett promises the club director that he will represent the club at the Butler Cup during his upcoming business trip to Venice .
When he arrives in Venice, Bartlett appears as a gentleman of the old school at the beginning of his journey, when he stands by a compatriot named Margret who is allegedly molested by a stranger. It soon turns out that this stranger is none other than the well-known tennis player Fred Evans, who is also a true heartthrob and friend of the said lady. On the same day, the two men face each other on the tennis court. Contrary to expectations, Billy Bartlett is clearly superior; not least because the pedant is unshakably calm and Evans plays completely unfocused due to the quarrels with his bride, who is constantly arguing with him because of his constant flirtation with other women. Since Bartlett sticks to his daily routine, he breaks off the match after exactly one hour at 4 p.m. sharp. Evans is then declared the winner.
In the evening Bartlett uses the stay for a romantic gondola tour with his new acquaintance Margret through the lagoon city. In his somewhat clumsy way, Billy finally makes the young woman a somewhat claused declaration of love. The romantic atmosphere and the moonlight do the rest, and Margret dumps her previous boyfriend Evans and agrees to a marriage proposal by Bartlett.
It's been two years since then when Fred Evans suddenly reappears. The years at the side of the meticulous model husband have left their mark on the fun-loving woman, and she sees what has escaped her so far. Margret threatens a divorce and completely messes up Williams' well-ordered life. He then seeks advice from his best friend and house roommate, Jack Wheeler. He advises him to deal more with his own women or with other women than with his quirks and crossword guessing all the time.
At home, Jack tells his own wife, Doddy, the story of Margaret's intention to divorce. In great excitement, she then runs to Bartlett to do her part, to save her friends' marriage. While talking like that, Billy Bartlett gushes out. He tells en passant how the two male friends enjoyed themselves many an evening in other ladies' company, while Doddy assumed her godly husband Jack to relax in the Turkish bath. Doddy is pissed off, the mood is at zero. Bartlett fears for his marriage, his wife has gone to the opera with Evans, and Jack is having fun at the club. Doddy seeks revenge. Why shouldn't she spend an evening together with her husband's best friend, Billy Bartlett, and maybe make Jack a little jealous? Doddy intercepts Bartlett, who was about to meet his secretary in a night bar to spend a boozy evening. Both straw widowers decide to get back at their spouses who have gone astray. And so they start to drink a lot of alcohol and frolic around at home.
After the opera, Evans and Margret went to a dance bar, and his ex-girlfriend finds out that Evans is still the old ladyboy from back then. Jack has meanwhile arrived at the nightclub where Billy's secretary has been waiting in vain for Bartlett. Jack takes her to a bar, but flashes her advances. In this very bar Jack now meets Margret, who is annoyed by her ex-lover Fred Evans. She asks Jack to take her with him when he drives home. Once there, the sheer chaos awaits them when they see William and Doddy. Both Jack and Margret believe that their respective spouses have cheated on them, and a tumultuous clash ensues, consisting of throws, fits of jealousy, room chases and tears. The next morning everyone calmed down and promises to get better. Jack wants to end his club tours, and Margret, who had seen last night that her control freak William can lose his well-controlled composure, resolves to overlook his spleens more generously.
Production notes
The film, shot from the end of July 1937, was based on the 1915 published Schwank Fair and Warmer by the American comedian Avery Hopwood (1882-1928).
In this film, Heinz Rühmann repeated the role with which he had already celebrated an overwhelming success on stage, "a comedic evergreen in which he should appear around 2000 times." With his performance in the theatrical version, he ensured that The model husband "Became the greatest public and laughter success of 1937/38". Rühmann's first post-war role was also to be The Model Husband when he toured the Soviet-occupied zone with this Schwank.
Rühmann also reserved the artistic lead over Wolfgang Liebeneiner, who was not yet too experienced in directing. Otto Gülstorff and Hans Minzloff were responsible for the design and execution of the buildings .
After Werner Fuetterer had finished his role in the film - he played tennis crack Fred Evans - he left Germany at the end of August 1937 and went to the USA until December 1938, where he met the German prince consort Albert von with great success on Broadway under the pseudonym Werner Bateman Saxe-Coburg and Gotha played in the play Victoria Regina . Meanwhile, The Model Husband ran under the title Model Husband on March 18, 1938 in the USA .
Former actor Wolfgang Liebeneiner, whose second director was Der Mustergatte , and Heinz Rühmann worked together for the first time on this film . By 1975 there should be three more co-operations. In April 1983, Liebeneiner's penultimate production was broadcast on television, a remake of the model husband , this time with Harald Juhnke and Grit Boettcher in the leading roles.
In 1956 and 1959, two further films were made of the popular material; the first in the Federal Republic (with Harald Juhnke and Theo Lingen ), the second in Switzerland , which was published in Germany under the title So ein Mustergatte to avoid confusion .
criticism
Heinrich Fraenkel's Immortal Film called The Model Husband a "seamlessly successful Schwank".
In All Movie Guide you can read: "Avery Hopwood's stage farce Fair and Warmer was effectively Germanized in 1937 as Der Mustergatte ."
The lexicon of international films said: "An exuberant, sometimes gaudy joke."
See also
Web links
- The Model Husband in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The model husband at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kay Less : The film's great personal dictionary . The actors, directors, cameramen, producers, composers, screenwriters, film architects, outfitters, costume designers, editors, sound engineers, make-up artists and special effects designers of the 20th century. Volume 6: N - R. Mary Nolan - Meg Ryan. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 673.
- ↑ Klaus Brüne (Red.): Lexicon of International Films Volume 5, p. 2687. Reinbek near Hamburg 1987.
- ↑ Kay Less : The film's great personal dictionary . The actors, directors, cameramen, producers, composers, screenwriters, film architects, outfitters, costume designers, editors, sound engineers, make-up artists and special effects designers of the 20th century. Volume 6: N - R. Mary Nolan - Meg Ryan. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 674.
- ↑ Kay Less : "In life, more is taken from you than given ...". Lexicon of filmmakers who emigrated from Germany and Austria between 1933 and 1945. A general overview. ACABUS Verlag, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86282-049-8 , p. 57.
- ^ Heinrich Fraenkel: Immortal Film. The great chronicle. From the first tone to the colored wide screen, p. 115, Munich 1957
- ↑ Der Mustergatte (1937) in AllMovie, table of contents by Hal Erickson
- ↑ The model husband. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .