My wife's dancer

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Movie
Original title My wife's dancer
Country of production German Empire
original language German
Publishing year 1925
length 88 minutes
Rod
Director Alexander Korda
script Adolf Lantz
Alexander Korda
production Hermann Fellner
Josef Somló
camera Nikolaus Farkas
Curt Oertel
occupation

My wife's dancer is a German silent film comedy by Alexander Korda with Maria Corda and Willy Fritsch in the leading roles. The story is based on the French tabloid Le Danseur de Madame by Paul Armont and Jacques Bousquet .

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The cheerful marriage and dance comedy about a dance relationship begins with the simple realization in the house of the Parisian couple Chauvelin that Madame loves dancing, while her stiff husband is more of an absolute dance grouch. Lucille tries again and again to persuade her husband Edmond to finally float across the floor with her, but he absolutely doesn't want to and thinks dancing is stupid. But Lucille doesn't let that deter him and instead goes to the swarm alone. A substitute partner is quickly found in Claude Gerson, a dance-loving friend of her husband. Claude has had an eye on Lucille for a long time, but has always been turned away by Lucille. He finally sees his big chance ...

In the dance hall, Lucille meets the attractive Max de Sillery, not just a friend of Claude, but also a gifted dancer. She is enchanted when Max leads her across the dance floor and they both dance late into the night. Then the couple goes away together and continues their party in Yvonne Trieux's apartment. The young woman is not only an actress, but also a neighbor of the Chauvelin couple. Edmond Chauvelin now sees a good opportunity to get back on his strolling wife and to flirt unrestrainedly with the neighbor. She, in turn, uses the opportunity to make her friend Max jealous and starts to fool around with Edmond. Ultimately, however, the relationship and dance conflicts resolve amicably again, and the old pairings find each other again. Edmond has realized how important dance is in Lucille's life and is finally learning to dance himself.

Production notes

The shooting took place in June 1925. The premiere was on November 6, 1925 in Berlin's UFA Theater on Kurfürstendamm. A youth ban was imposed for the six-stroke.

Paul Leni designed the film structures. Marlene Dietrich's unnamed brief appearance as a trumpeter in a jazz band went largely unnoticed; Her husband Rudolf Sieber took on the job of a production manager for this production.

This film was a real challenge for Fritsch, since he claimed all his life that he was a miserable dancer.

Reviews

On the occasion of Alexander Korda's production Madame wishes no children in Film-Kurier No. 293 of December 15, 1926, Hans Feld recalled that the director had created the best social comedy of the season with " My wife's dancer ", and the Berliner Tageblatt from December 7 , 1926 . November 1925, Willy Fritsch praised Fritsch with the words that his appearance was "funny and enjoyable".

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Heike Goldbach: A firework of charm. Willy Fritsch. Hamburg 2017

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