The Irresistible (1937)

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Movie
Original title The irresistible one
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1937
Rod
Director Géza from Bolváry
script Walter Forster ,
Alexander Lix
production Karl Julius Fritzsche
music Franz Doelle
camera Werner Brandes
cut Wolfgang Wehrum
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The Irresistible is a German feature film from 1937. Géza von Bolváry led directing . Anny Ondra , Hans Söhnker and Erika von Thellmann play the leading roles in this turbulent musical comedy. The award title in Austria was my fate are women .

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André Vallier, the son of the stocking manufacturer Charles Vallier, falls out with his father, who disagrees with his constantly changing female acquaintances. The young Vallier is what is called a "type of woman". André leaves Lyon and his family and goes to Paris . He wants to prove to his father that he can do it without his support and his name, which opens many doors. At first, however, he started out modestly and hired himself out as a porter in Madame Suzanne Midi's fashion salon. Since Madame Midi has a practiced look and she likes the young man exceptionally well, he quickly rises to the head of her fashion shows . And then he is the cock in the basket with the very pretty mannequins .

One day a particularly attractive customer enters the fashion salon, she is the Renier footwear representative, Claudette Renier. Due to a chain of coincidences, André thinks the young lady is a mannequin, and Claudette joins the game with amusement. Also in view of the fact that her aunt gave her the impoverished and not exactly young Marquis Rossignol as her husband in order to promote her to the noble status of a marquise, she is increasingly enjoying flirting with a young, charming man. She also likes the fact that André does not know anything about her wealth. The two arrange to meet for the midinette ball. Madame Midi, who herself has her eye on André, is also present at the ball, towing Pellerine, who is loyal to her. This makes it a little difficult for them to live their togetherness. After all, they are dancing an unforgettable waltz on the Rue de Madeleine. André hopes, inspired by previous successes with women, that there will be a first night together between him and Claudette. Claudette, however, charmingly eludes him.

Confused, she called the fashion salon the next morning in the morning, but was told that André was sick. Covered with plenty of medicine , cake and fruit, she rings his doorbell. André, who is doing well, simulates a little and enjoys how caring Claudette takes care of him. As she is making coffee, she asks casually whether he would run away with a woman he loves, which André replies in the affirmative. He jumps up and asks Claudette if she would run away with him. Both sing happily I have no castle and you have no palace! When Claudette is holding a cup of coffee in her hand, André hugs her so stormily that the contents of the cup spill over her dress. André forces her to take off the dress behind a screen so that the porter's wife can clean it. He is just out and about with the dress when Madame Midi rings the doorbell. Claudette only sees the way out of the window, without realizing that she is only wearing a shirt. So she runs into a policeman who drags her straight to the police station. There is a reporter hanging around there, for whom these pictures are a godsend. Meanwhile, André has found out from Madame Midi who Claudette really is and, with her dress in hand, rushes to the police station to help her. When he explains to the police who she has arrested, Claudette draws the wrong conclusion that he knew who she was from the start and was only after her money. Disappointed and wordless, she leaves the scene.

The other day everyone can "admire" the scantily clad Claudette in the newspaper. The Marquis de Rossignol is also confronted with the picture and explains to her aunt that he does not want to go down in the history of his ancestors as a horned man, that he does not need a bride whose underwear all of Paris already knows.

Since Claudette's aunt then decides that she must now marry Monsieur André, André drives the return coach , keeps his true origins to himself, and presents her relatives, from whom Claudette only wants to run away. Already in her wedding dress , she throws her bridal bouquet with the shout “No”, “No”, “No”, storms off and asks Charles Vallier to make his car parked in front of the house available to her. With a wink he says that his son, who is already in the car, can drive it. Claudette doesn't care and so she asks Vallier's son to just take her away from here. Since he wears a leather hood and dark glasses that completely hide his face, Claudette doesn't know who she got in the car with. André roars off and only when they stop at a gas station does he reveal himself, and happily they both sink into each other's arms. And her car, which has landed on a lifting platform , slowly rises into (seventh) heaven.

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Songs in the movie

  • Who does a woman make herself beautiful for? (Foxtrot) sung by Anny Ondra
  • On the Rue Madeleine in Paris (waltz) sung by Anny Ondra and Hans Söhnker
  • My fate are women (foxtrot) resp. Men are my fate
  • I have no castle and you have no palace! (Foxtrot) sung by Anny Ondra and Hans Söhnker

Text of all songs by Charlie Amberg , music by Franz Doelle

Production notes

The shooting took place from April 1937 to June 1, 1937. On July 28, 1937, the film was banned from young people (B.45825). The film premiered on August 20, 1937 in the Gloria Palast in Frankfurt am Main . The first performance was on October 14, 1937 in the atrium in Berlin . The film was first broadcast on German television on May 15, 1985 by Bavarian Radio .

The production company was Tobis-Magna-Filmproduktion GmbH (Berlin). The Terra-Filmkunst was responsible for the theatrical in Germany. The production line was Robert Leistenschneider and Veit Massary, for the production design was Emil Hasler and Artur Schwarz responsible Hermann ball city was responsible for the assistant director. The costumes are from Eleanor Behm and the sound from Erich Lange. Wolff von Gordon was part of the crew as a dramaturge.

Reviews

“Unreal entertainment with a lot of music, but also just as much idle time. After all: the waltz "On the Rue Madeleine in Paris" became an evergreen. "

- Lexicon of international film

"The film is - thanks to the naturalness of Anny Ondra ... and the liveliness of Hans Söhnker and well-cast marginal characters - irresistible!"

- K. Wendtland, beloved Kintopp

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Irresistible. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed September 18, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  2. ↑ The irresistible at Eva-Lichtspiele. Retrieved April 15, 2012.