The disobedient daughter
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The disobedient daughter |
| Original title | Why Girls Say No. |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1927 |
| length | 23 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Leo McCarey |
| script |
Hal Roach Stan Laurel |
| production | Hal Roach Studios |
| camera | Frank Young |
| cut | Richard Currier |
| occupation | |
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The disobedient daughter is the German title of the American silent film comedy Why Girls Say No , which Leo McCarey made for Hal Roach Studios in 1927 based on a script by Hal Roach and Stan Laurel . The main role is played by the Berlin-born Jewish comedian Max Davidson , at whose side Oliver Hardy also appears as a policeman. His later partner Stan Laurel worked behind the camera on this film: as a co-author of the script.
action
Rebecca "Becky" Whisselberg is at an age when young men are starting to show an interest in her. Father Whisselberg, a completely Jewish patriarch, attaches great importance to Becky's boy friends being Jewish as well. Every time a new suitor rings the doorbell, he is initially angry until he has examined the candidate's nose. When it ensures that the young man is kosher (Yiddish: כשר), he calms down again.
But Becky attracts the attention of a young man who doesn't look Jewish at all. He climbs very aggressively after Becky. She rejects him first, but then lets him get her around. But to be allowed to associate with Becky's family, he has to pass as a Jew. Amazingly, he does this by wearing a hat that is many sizes too small. In the Whisselberg family, you keep your hat on when you eat. That seems plausible since none of the male attendees is wearing a yarmulkah (Yiddish: אַרמלקע). The candidate Ginsberg even has a cheeky "circular saw" (straw hat) on.
Becky invites her boyfriend into the house for Whisselberg's father . Here he first gets things mixed up when he clumsily brings the birthday cake to collapse and, in order to get it back in shape, inflates it with the bicycle pump. When the air escapes while cutting and the candles on the table are extinguished, Father Whisselberg throws him out of the house. But he takes Becky with him and there is a chase through the streets of the city to the boy's house. As a father Whisselberg penetrates there and the groom -to-be wants to task, this makes him and his parents known, both to father Whisselbergs great surprise - Orthodox Jews.
background
The comedy was created in Hal Roach Studios, the costumes were designed by William Lambert. The direction was assisted by Joe Barry , Lloyd French and Jean Yarbrough . HMWalker wrote the subtitles. Richard Currier edited the film. Production was directed by F. Richard Jones. Frank Young was in front of the camera . Why Girls Say No premiered in the United States on February 20, 1927.
reception
"Why Girls Say No" is one of Max Davidson's funnier comedies, even though the aggressively Jewish stereotypes are more obvious here than in most of his other films. Still, there are some very disturbing plot elements here. This is one of those movies which subscribes to the view that, if a man pursues a woman aggressively enough, she will eventually welcome his advances. "(F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre, Minffordd, North Wales)
The funniest character in the film is probably Oliver Hardy, who plays a beefy cop, which clearly differs from his later famous film character “Ollie”.
“In all of these silent films, he (Davidson) plays the role of the stubborn Jewish patriarch who is always careful to uphold tradition. The result is anarchic slapstick at its finest, for which nothing is apparently sacred. "
Stefan Drößler explains Davidson's success with the audience as follows: “Constantly driven by the fear of losing the hard-won standard of living and always ready to defend traditional values in a modern world that shapes his own children, Davidson was the ideal figure to identify with Army of immigrants in the US. "
- Re-performances:
At the 2012 Bonn Silent Film Festival in the Arkadenhof, “Die unselfish daughter”, accompanied live by the “Düsseldorfer SchlagEnsemble” Christian Roderburg and Anja Wegmann, was shown on Tuesday, August 21, at 9 pm.
At the FilmFest Osnabrück 2013, “The Unfollowing Daughter” ( Why Girls Say No ) was presented together with “Das Haus der Tausend Freuden” ( Call of the Cuckoo ), “And a proud rooster there” ( Pass The Gravy ) and “The pantsless grandpa “( Flaming Fathers ) on Friday March 1st at 7:30 pm. Meik Kraft accompanied the performance on the piano.
The Filmmuseum München showed “The Unfollowing Daughter” in its series “Schätze des Filmmuseums” on Friday, April 11, 2014, at 6.30 p.m. together with “And a proud cock here” ( Pass The Gravy ), “It always comes differently” ( Jewish Prudence ) and “Little Secrets” ( Don't Tell Everything ). Joachim Bärenz on the piano and Christian Roderburg on the drums provided the musical accompaniment.
As part of the supporting program for the “KlezMORE Festival Vienna” 2014, “Die unselfish daughter” was presented together with Don't Tell Everything , Call of the Cuckoo and Pass the Gravy on Sunday, November 9th, 2014 at 1:00 p.m. in the Kultur Cafe TACHLES, 1020 Vienna, Karmeliterplatz 1 listed. The performance was accompanied by clarinetist Maciej Golebiowski and accordionist Aleksandr Shevchenko.
- Republication:
Stefan Drößler from the Filmmuseum München published Why Girls Say No as track 1 on the first of the two DVSs of his Max Davidson edition from 2011 in the Edition Filmmuseum.
The cultural broadcaster Arte showed Why Girls Say No under its German title on Monday, June 16, 2014 at 12:20 a.m. on German television.
literature
- The American Hebrew and Jewish Tribune. Volume 120, Issue 19, published by The American Hebrew, New York City, March 18, 1927, p. 677.
- Norbert Aping: The Dick and Doof book: the story of Laurel and Hardy in Germany. Verlag Schüren, 2004, ISBN 3-89472-356-4 , p. 367.
- Daniel Eagan: America's Film Legacy: The Authoritative Guide to the Landmark Movies in the National Film Registry. National Film Preservation Board (US). Verlag A&C Black, 2010, ISBN 978-0-8264-2977-3 , p. 137.
- Patricia Erens: The Jew in American Cinema. (= Jewish literature and culture. A Midland book. Volume 493). Indiana University Press, 1984, ISBN 0-253-20493-3 , pp. 42, 92-95, 132.
- Wolfgang Jacobsen, Hans Helmut Prinzler, Michael Althen: Hal Roach: Homage for the 100th birthday. Verlag Stiftung Deutsche Kinemathek, 1992, p. 131.
- Kenneth Turan: Not to be Missed: Fifty-four Favorites from a Lifetime of Film. PublicAffairs publishing house, 2014, ISBN 978-1-58648-396-8 , p. 11.
Web links
- The disobedient daughter in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Why Girls Say No at en.wiki (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ 2 acts, 600 meters
- ↑ in the film this is the actor Jesse De Vorska, "a man with an extremely Semitic appearance", cf. IMDb / reviews : "The visitor is played by Jesse De Vorska, a gawky actor of extremely Semitic appearance."
- ↑ according to IMDb / reviews
- ↑ cf. tv.de
- ↑ cf. edition-filmmuseum.com
- ↑ cf. general-anzeiger-bonn.de 08/17/2012.
- ↑ cf. "FilmFest Osnabrück shows silent film comedy with live music", at johannisfriedhof.de ( memento of the original from September 30, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ cf. “Treasures of the Filmmuseum”, PDF online
- ↑ cf. klezmore-vienna.at ( Memento of the original from September 30, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ cf. edition-filmmuseum.com
- ↑ cf. arte.tv/de
