Miss the dentist
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Miss the dentist |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1919 |
| length | approx. 76 (1919), approx. 72 (1921) minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Joe May |
| script |
Richard Hutter Joe May |
| production | Joe May |
| occupation | |
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Fräulein Zahnarzt is a German silent film fun game from 1919 by Joe May with his wife Mia May in the title role.
action
The Miss Dentist Grace Larsen is the daughter of old Larsen, a millionaire. As the child of wealthy parents, she can easily afford to cure her patients of their pain for free. The black house servant Bambula is helpful to her. Grace's fiancé Kay Roland has a traditional and very conservative image of women and does not want his future wife to work at all. He sees their dental work as a temporary hobby anyway. He also makes fun of Grace's generosity and drags his fiancée into the palace theater, where a man extensively mocks his working wife in a four-act comedy grotesque called “The husband of a woman with a job”. The woman shown there is an artist. While she is painting on a canvas, everything around her goes haywire: one child yells, is splashed wet by another child, and during all of this the house dog has jumped on the dining table and eats everything bald from the plates. When the lovely husband comes home he only claps his hands over his head in the face of this chaos. Grace is extremely angry that both her fiancé and her father are enjoying the play royally and giving frenetic applause. When Roland claims that she wouldn't have a single patient if she got paid for her services, she leaves the theater angry.
Kay Roland snootily assumes that once Grace runs out of money on her generosity, she will return to him remorsefully. The young dentist quickly finds an ally in Kay's brother Erik, who values Grace very much. Through a placement agent named Fletscher, Erik organizes 20 patients who would like to be treated by Miss Dentist. This is supposed to dug up the water for Roland, but he quickly sees through the manipulation and turns off the flow of money for Grace and Erik, as the patients were "bought" with his money. Grace is soon broke because no paying patient is coming, and her fiancé has the audacity to have her furniture seized. After all, Agent Fletscher proves to be so decent and helps Grace out of a jam by offering her a job at his company. After some back and forth, Grace and Kay reconcile, and the reactionary moral of this story promises that Grace has been thoroughly "cured" of her desire to work: From now on she wants to take on the classic role of housewife and wife content.
Production notes
Miss Dentist was created as a lightweight finger exercise during a break in shooting May's eight-part monumental film The Mistress of the World . Several members of the crew of this large-scale production were also involved in Miss Dentist . The five-act film passed film censorship in July 1919 and was banned from young people. The first performance took place, depending on the source, in August or September 1919 in Berlin's Kurfürstendamm UT. The original length of the film was 1571 meters (1919). When it was re-censored on April 23, 1921, Miss Dentist was reduced to 1,494 meters.
Martin Jacoby-Boy designed the film structures.
criticism
“An excellent idea was brought out by good actors at a brisk pace and brought to full effect. One can hardly believe that Mia May, who has grown almost into the heroic, has so much left for the comic subject and is doubly surprised that she succeeds in such an excellent way. The technical qualities of the May films are also evident in this piece ... "
Individual evidence
Web links
- Miss dentist in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Miss Dentist at The German Early Cinema Database
- Miss dentist at filmportal.de
- six-minute film clip on filmportal.de