Dolly has a career
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Dolly has a career |
| Country of production | German Empire |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1930 |
| length | 87 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Anatol Litwak |
| script |
Irma von Cube Arthur Rebner Peter Heimann based on an idea by Alfred Halm |
| production | Gregor Rabinowitsch |
| music |
Rudolf Nelson Alfred Strasser Willy Schmidt-Gentner |
| camera |
Fritz Arno Wagner Robert Baberske |
| occupation | |
and Hansi Arnstaedt , Lucie Euler , Trude Lehmann , Valeska Stock , Ellen Plessow , Paul Henckels , Erich Kestin , Geza L. Weiss , Manfred Voß , Bernhardt Veidt , Charly Dodo , Georg Schmieter , Kurt Lilien , Julius E. Herrmann , Hans Zesch- Ballot | |
Dolly makes a career is a German comedy film from 1930 by Anatol Litwak , who made his directorial debut here. Dolly Haas played her first leading role in the cinema here and became an “overnight star and new darling of the public”.
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The boyish Dolly Klaren, who makes a living as a saleswoman in a hat salon, is an energetic tomboy. She would like to live out all her power as an artist and dreams of an acting career in the theater. She has a close friendship with the talented and unsuccessful musician Fred, who only laughs at Dolly when she tells him about her stage plans. With a trick she can visit the local theater director Silbermann, who is currently in dire straits: the main role of a play has to be re-cast because the previous star has shamefully abandoned him. Silbermann, a compact, always a little hectic and spirited theater man through and through, knows how PR works. Since he recognized Dolly's talent, he vigorously beats the drum and praises the completely unknown to the public with great bohei.
In order to make the delicate girl a little more interesting for the audience, Silbermann started the rumor that Dolly was the mistress of the noble Duke Eberhard von Schwarzenburg. Of course, he doesn't know about his luck and now begins to develop an interest in the young girl. For this reason he attends the first performance of the new revue with Dolly, which is quite a failure for the debutante. The soigned nobleman takes Dollys and tries to comfort her as much as possible. The man quickly falls in love with the girl "in his prime", but he has to rethink his attitude when he overhears a conversation about Dolly's (allegedly platonic) friend Fred. The Duke withdraws in his calm, elegant manner. After various misunderstandings, not only do Dolly and Fred come together as a couple, but the whirlwind theater novice also manages to turn the unsuccessful clarinetist into a popular pop composer who, thanks to Dolly's commitment, can soon land his first big hit.
Production notes
Dolly makes a career was filmed from July 29 to August 20, 1930 in the UFA Ateliers in Neubabelsberg and premiered on October 1, 1930 in Dolly Haas' hometown Hamburg. The Vienna premiere took place on October 23, 1930, the Berlin one a day later.
Noé Bloch also took over the production management. The film structures were created by Jacques Rotmil and Heinz Fennel , the costumes by Ernst Stern . Ernst Matray studied the dances . Willy Schmidt-Gentner took over the musical direction, Irma von Cube and Arthur Rebner wrote the lyrics .
The film was a huge hit and marked the beginning of the formidable careers of Anatole Litvak and Dolly Haas.
Music track
The following music tracks are played:
- You got the passage from Harvey
- Kiss Me!
- Just leave me a little piece of you
- My darling has a clarinet
- Speak up, my child
- What's that?
These titles were published by Ufaton Music Publishing.
criticism
“A special feature of the film is the fast pace, which continues uninterrupted from the first to the last frame, the effect of which, strongly supported by the graceful music coordinated with this tempo, is immediately communicated to the audience. The cheeky ease in handling the confused swirling processes and the liveliness of the dialogue give the whole thing its very own, characteristic note. "
In the film's large personal dictionary , it is said that Dolly is making a career is a “lively comedy”.
When the film opened in the US in July 1931, the New York Times criticized the “stereotypical nature” of the story, but described the “acting and camera work as excellent”.
The trade journal Variety found that Dolly is making a career is "the best film that UFA has shown so far in New York's Cosmopolitan" cinema.
Web links
- Dolly makes a career in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Dolly makes a career at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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. P. 223, ACABUS-Verlag, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86282-049-8
- ↑ Dolly Haas in: deutsches-filminstitut.de
- ↑ Kay Less : The large personal dictionary of films, Volume 3, p. 464. Berlin 2001
- ^ The New York Times, July 18, 1931
- ↑ Variety, July 31, 1931