Self (archive footage)
Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American entertainment industry during the Great Depression.
Herman
The goings on of a few members of a radio show's audience is the premise for this feature film derived from the popular ABC radio show of the 1940's. This film features Tom Breneman, the radio show's host, as well as Bonita Granville, Beulah Bondi, Zasu Pitts, Billie Burke and Hedda Hopper. Musical performances are provided by Nat King Cole and the King Cole Trio, along with Spike Jones and his City Slickers.
Hessian Col. / Von Heisel
Bill wants to join the Army, but he's 4F so he asks a wizard to help him, but the wizard has slight problems with his history knowlege, so he sends Bill everywhere in history, but not to WWII.
Kilian, City Hall Guard
In Prussia shoemaker Voight needs a residence permit to get a job, but can only get a job if he already has a permit. He dons a captain's uniform to order a platoon of soldiers to Koepenick to take over the Town Hall to get his permit.
Louis
Adolf Hitler, Benito and Suki Yaki are placed in a series of Three-Stooges routines, with the premise that the Board of Directors of Hell has put the Devil on notice they intend to replace him with Adolf Hitler unless he can get Hitler to commit a good deed. The devil has his work cut out for him, and doesn't appear likely to escape being replaced by the German leader.
The Ringmaster (voice)
아기 코끼리 덤보는 자신의 커다란 귀 때문에 항상 서커스단 식구들에게 놀림을 받는다. 처음 서커스에 출연하는 날 덤보는 귀엽게 단장을 하고 손님들 앞에서 묘기를 보이지만 커다란 귀 때문에 구경 온 아이들의 놀림만 받는다. 덤보를 끔찍이 아끼는 엄마 점보 부인은 덤보를 놀리는 아이들을 혼을 내주게 되고, 서커스장은 온통 아수라장이 되어 버린다. 이 사건으로 덤보의 엄마 점보 부인은 미친 코끼리로 낙인이 찍힌 채 서커스단을 떠나게 된다. 다른 코끼리들은 이 모든 것이 덤보의 커다란 귀 때문이라며 그를 따돌린다. 엄마 잃은 덤보는 서커스단에서 친구 하나 없는 외로운 신세가 되고 마는데...
Market Keeper
In order to avoid an arranged marriage with a man she doesn't love, Sarah Millick runs off to Vienna with her music teacher, Carl Linden, whom she does love. They are married. In Vienna, they struggle to make a living by making music. Carl writes an operetta and tries to get it produced. They are helped along by Viennese Baron, but his intentions are not honorable. He kills Carl in a sword fight. A big producer does put on the operetta, with Sari in the lead -- but without her husband, it is a bittersweet victory.
Dutchman
When a waiter gives a society girl a public spanking for attending a Communist rally, her soup-tycoon uncle makes the waiter a vice-president of his company.
Silhouettist (uncredited)
Johnny Brett and King Shaw are an unsuccessful dance team in New York. A producer discovers Brett as the new partner for Clare Bennett, but Brett, who thinks he is one of the people they lent money to, gives him the name of his partner.
Oscar Engel
Bickering husband-and-wife stage stars are manipulated into a break-up for publicity purposes.
Von Hamburger (voice) (uncredited)
Daffy causes trouble on a Hollywood set.
Dommayer
Composer Johann Strauss risks his marriage over his infatuation with a beautiful singer.
Oscar Wittlesbach
A socialite dumps her fiancé on their wedding day and runs off with a saxophone player. Comedy.
Barber
A publicist falls for his most difficult client's daughter.
Mr. Polter
A businessman mingles with German laborers to learn more about their lives.
Monsieur Pepinard
미국의 억만장자 마이클은 휴양지에서 가난한 후작의 딸 니콜과 마주친다. 짧은 만남 뒤, 우연히 니콜의 아버지를 만나게 된 마이클은 호의를 베풀며 니콜과 결혼하고 싶다는 마음을 내비친다. 그러나 약혼 파티에서 마이클이 일곱 번이나 결혼한 이혼남임을 알게 된 니콜은 충격에 빠져 결혼을 취소하려 한다. 동명의 프랑스 희곡을 각색했으며, 샘 우드의 작품을 리메이크한 것이기도 하다. 흥미로운 이야기에 클로데트 콜베르와 게리 쿠퍼의 연기 호흡이 자연스럽게 어우러졌다. (2015 영화의 전당 - 에른스트 루비치 특별전)
Von Giersdorff, aka Count Herman
We find con-man Ingraham Steward living by his wits by steering wealthy Paris visitors to sellers of fake paintings and other assorted dodges. He and his wife, Agatha, have been separated for 15 years, but he promises to give their daughter, Joyce, a lavish wedding at his "château" in France. The fact that he doesn't have a château in France is just a minor trifle. He induces the caretaker, Bill Cherau, of a large country estate to allow it to be used for the wedding. The wedding party arrives and Bill falls madly in love with Joyce and she with him, but a gal has gotta do what a gal has gotta do, and her intended marriage to stuffed-shirt Horace Miller stays on the books. But Steward has a change of heart and he tells one and all that he and his friends, Von Gersdorff, Lefevre, Iznamof, Clifton Summitt and Sasch, are all frauds and crooks. Horace and his family stalk out, which is just fine with Joyce as her true love, the caretaker, is waiting on the grounds.
A barber is mistaken for a rich society woman's new servant.
August Archipenko
An opera star's manager tries to stop her romance with a penniless singer.
Max Snellinek
n Vienna, a new jazz club featuring American trumpeter Buzzy Bellew threatens the existence of its neighbor, the Waltz Palace, run by Franz Strauss and featuring his granddaughter, singer Elsa. Smitten by Elsa, Buzzy hides his identity and association with the club -- whose owner intends to buy out the Palace property. When Elsa accidentally learns who Buzzy really is, it appears he may have to return to America alone.
"Hammy" Hammacher
Nikki Martin (Lily Pons), a beautiful French opera star, stows away on an ocean liner in hopes of escaping her jealous fiancee. Once aboard, she joins an American swing band and falls in love with its leader, who, after hearing her sing, eventually comes to reciprocate her feelings.
Herman
A fast-talking pitchman working the con-games on the streets, works himself up into an executive position of a large department store, with the aide of his shill, Mae. But the owner, Elmer Woods, of the department store has a blonde-beauty daughter, Peggy, who goes to work on him.
Otto
The story of an egotistical crime writer who gets involved with the case of a notorious art thief (who is believed to be dead) while at the same time romancing a lovely young actress who's in a play that also happens to be the cover for massive jewel job. Art connoisseur and criminologist George Melville is hired to track down art thieves, assisted by perky Claire Peyton and goaded by Phil Bane, the roaring newspaper editor who has employed him. The mastermind poses as a theatrical impresario and stages a war drama, replete with loud explosions, to divert attention from his band of thieves, who are cracking safes in a bank adjacent to the theater.
Dr. Rosenkrantz - Coroner
Dinner party guests become murder suspects when an extortionist they all hated turns up dead.
Pretzelberger
Princess is destined to marry the Emperor, until her sister steps in.
Fritz Schultz
Bonnie Brewster and "Packy" Campbell, rival reporters on competing newspapers, team up to put an end to a smuggling gang that brings illegal aliens to the United States, and then makes further victims of them by extortion payments. They go to Vancouver, Canada and board a ship carrying aliens. But the gang recognizes them as reporters and gang-henchmen Tony Scula (Ralf Harolde) and Ira Conklin take them off the ship. But Campbell recognizes Scula as the gunman who killed Carmen Zoro.
Costumer
미국의 가장 위대한 흥행사 플로렌즈 지그펠드 2세(Florenz Ziegfeld, Jr.)의 일생에서 일어난 일들과 사랑을 근거로 하였다는 설명과 함께 시작되는 '위대한 지그펠드'는 19세기 말과 20세기 초에 활동을 한 미국의 연극 제작가 플로렌즈 지그펠드 2세의 이야기
Weisbecher
An Irish crooner flirts with prize-fighting.
Mr. Kluckmeyer, Tango Hosiery
Believing his wife to be unfaithful, a husband deserts her and his child. Destitute, the woman is forced to take a job as a tango dancer.
Mr. Daniells
Opera singer, Marie de Flor, seeks out fugitive brother in the Canadian wilderness. During her trek, she meets a Canadian mountie, Sgt. Bruce, who is also searching for her brother. Romance ensues, resulting in several love duets between the two.
Luigi
A radical campus group persuades student Carol Arlington to lead a protest of a college's football team. She manages to recruit Larry Davis, even though he is a star player for State's team.
Walter Merkin
An eccentric, wealthy spinster, 'Queenie' Baxter is erroneously presumed to be kidnapped. She subsequently pretends to indeed be kidnapped, , in order to allow a reward of $50,000 to benefit an impecunious family headed by Tony Orsatti and his three sons, Blackie, Doc and Flash.
Vanderbrocken
Two rich and wealthy millionaires who have a lot of money bet that reporter Wally Jones can't spend $720,000 in twelve hours.
Barber (uncredited)
A manicurist and an engaged loafer, both planning to marry money, meet and fall in love.
Mr. 'Stony' Stonehill
A father leaves his native Ireland and travels to America to visit the son he hasn't heard from in many years.
Taxi Driver
A whodunit set in Budapest, starring Edmund Lowe as a detective investigating the murder of an unemployed vaudeville actor.
Lionel Kunkel
A film star finds herself in trouble with her co-star when she has to flirt with the backer to prevent him from withdrawing his support.
Hans Bergenspitz (uncredited)
In this musical, a songwriter goes to court to claim the rights to his song that was stolen by an unscrupulous music publisher. He brings his girlfriend with him. Also going to court are the Jubilee singers, hillbillies, and some cowboys and Indians who demonstrate that the composer wrote his song by rearranging four folk tunes. He wins his song back and $50,000 in damages. Songs include: "Heading Home," "Roll Along Prairie Moon," "Tender Is the Night," "You're My Thrill," "I'm Bound for Heaven," and "The Army Band."
Sam
Jack Thornton has trouble winning enough at cards for the stake he needs to get to the Alaska gold fields. His luck changes when he pays $250 for Buck, a sled dog that is part wolf to keep him from being shot by an arrogant Englishman also headed for the Yukon. En route to the Yukon with Shorty Houlihan -- who spent time in jail for opening someone else's letter with a map of where gold is to be found -- Jack rescues a woman whose husband was the addressee of that letter. Buck helps Jack win a $1,000 bet to get the supplies he needs. And when Jack and Claire Blake pet Buck one night, fingers touch.
Joe Schmidt
Three young girls working in an agency have build a singing trio. They want to "lease" the Dictaphone of their boss to make a record of their singing, but they are caught and fired. When they are not able to pay their rent any longer, they decide to try it on an amateur contest at a radio station.
Professor Friedrich Wilhelm Gruber
Owen, a small time bookie, decides to open an insurance business as it involves lesser risk. His first client is Colonel Youngblood who insures his daughter, Marilyn, against marriage.
Mr. Sam Bromberg
A recently-fired advertising executive starts his own company, Confidential Services, to help clients solve their unusual and problematic situations.
Two bumbling detectives help a stage actress who has been receiving threatening letters.
Florist
At a Mexican resort, a fast-talking magazine editor woos the dancer he's trashed in print.
Sazarac the Magician
Thelma and Patsy get a job working for a magician.
Baker
A playwright descended from the Borgias family becomes a murder suspect.
Hans
Crime novelist Roger Blackwood competes with hotel house detective Andy McCabe in solving a murder by poisoning at a medical convention.
Nepomuk
Young Austrian Archduke Paul "Gustl" Gustave is in an arranged engagement but his uncle, the emperor, decides to let Gustl carry on a fling with ballet dancer Lisl Gluck.
Farmer Schultz
20th Century Fox's highly fabricated film biography of circus showman P. T. Barnum stars Wallace Beery (as Barnum), Virginia Bruce (as Jenny Lind), Janet Beecher and Adolphe Menjou. Released in 1934.
Zizipoff
유럽의 작고 가난한 왕국 마코브니아의 국왕 아치메드는 국가의 재정을 보호하기 위해 고군분투한다. 왕국에서 제일가는 부자인 과부 소냐가 파리로 떠나자 국왕은 매력적인 대위 다닐로를 보내 그녀가 외국인과 재혼하는 것을 막으려 한다. 소냐와의 결혼에 실패하면 다닐로는 감옥에 가게 되는 것이다. 우여곡절 끝에 다닐로는 소냐와 결혼을 약속하지만 그가 명령에 의해 자신에게 접근했음을 알게 된 소냐는 다닐로의 청혼을 거절하고, 결국 다닐로는 감옥에 갇히게 된다. 프란츠 레하르의 유명한 동명 오페라타를 각색한 영화. 경쾌한 음악과 활기 넘치는 대사를 루비치 만의 세련된 유머와 스타일로 증류해 낸 작품으로, 시대를 통틀어 가장 뛰어난 뮤지컬 영화라는 평가를 받으며 이후 할리우드 뮤지컬에 많은 영향을 미쳤다.
Dutchman Bidding $1.25 (uncredited)
Auctioneer Spot Cash Cutler is planning the scam of a lifetime, but will he get burned?
Himmelbaum
After Fred von Bergen, a German immigrant in America, is forced from his job by anti-German hysteria before the first world war, he and his friend Bob Wilson leave America and join the German air force. There, both men fall in love with ambulance driver Alida Hoffman. When America enters the war, Bob is caught between loyalty to his home country and the threat of execution for desertion and treason to Germany. It remains for his friend Fred to extricate him from the dilemma - but at what cost?
Bartender
Jerry Randolph is an inveterate and obnoxious practical joker. Things take a serious turn when it looks as though Jerry's latest prank has resulted in the death of his best friend.
Jake
Wounded criminal Lucky Wilson takes refuge in a small Connecticut farm. He falls in love with the farmer's daughter who at first is unaware of his criminal record. Lucky is fully prepared to shoot his way out when the cops come calling, but he is softened by the daughter's affections.
Vegetable Man
Mary Barrett is an aspiring opera singer who is taken under the wings of a famous operatic maestro, Guilio Monterverdi. After spending endless working hours together and arguing, their relationship develops into love. But, jealousy and misunderstandings prevent Mary and Guilio from acknowledging their true feelings.
Beard #1 (uncredited)
브로드웨이의 제작자 오스카 재피(Oscar Jaffe: 존 배리모어 분)는, 경력이라고는 속옷 광고가 전부인 여배우 지망생 밀드레드 플랏카(Mildred Plotka: 캐롤 롬바드)를 자신의 차기 작품 주연으로 캐스팅 한다. 주위의 만류에도 불구하고 기초부터 하나 하나 혹독하게 교육하며 릴리 갈런드(Lily Garland)라는 새 이름으로 밀드레드를 일약 스타로 만든 재피. 그로부터 3년 간 릴리와 함께 일하며 하는 작품마다 성공을 이룬다. 그러던 어느 날, 재피의 간섭으로 세상과 담쌓고 살던 릴리가 재피의 자기 중심적인 태도와 병적인 집착증, 질투에 제동을 건다. 재피는 릴리의 뜻을 존중하는 듯 릴리를 속이고 사립 탐정을 붙여 릴리의 뒤를 캐려고 하고 재피의 꿍꿍이를 알게 된 릴리는 헐리우드행 기차를 타고 재피를 떠난다. 릴리를 잃는 재피의 극단은 그녀의 뒤를 이을 새 얼굴을 찾지만 성공 하지 못하고 연이은 연극의 실패와 재피에게 남은 건 엄청난 빚뿐이다. 시카고에서 잔다르크를 상연했다 실패한 재피. 경찰들은 재피가 시카고를 떠나지 못하도록 감시하고 재피는 변장을 한 채 뉴욕행 기차, 20세기를 탄다. 그러다 재피 일행은 그 기차에 릴리가 탄 것을 알게 되고 릴리를 마지막 희망으로 생각한 재피 일행은 그녀의 마음을 되돌려 그녀와 계약을 하기 위해 줄다리기를 한다.
Gustave
After having been swindled out of all their money by a crooked business manager, formerly wealthy socialites Jerry and Carol discover that they owe their chauffeur and maid back wages they are unable to pay. They're forced to let their former employees live in their luxury apartment in lieu of paying the money they owe them.
Adolph
Lee Tracy once again plays a Winchellesque newspaper reporter in Universal's I'll Tell the World. More interested in his sex life than his career, news hawk Brown nonetheless agrees to cover the activities of a European archduke on behalf of his wire service.
Wirt
It's love at first sight for singer John Craddock and Jane Blodgett who meet while John is seeking a radio job with the "Blodgett Dog Biscuit Hour," and John learns that the sponsor is Jane's father, Warren Blodgett, an avid souvenir and antiques collector. John gets himself in bad with Blodgett when he accidentally ruins a deal in which Blodgett was attempting to acquire a bedpost for his collection. To break up the romance, Blodgett and his wife take Jane to Switzerland, where Blodgett has his heart set on obtaining a jealously-guarded cowbell.
Prof. Kleinschmidt
Abandoned by her lover, a woman becomes the main "hostess" in a decadent nightclub, but tries to put her past behind her on a steamer to Mandalay.
Engles the Lodge Owner
Bill's wife insists that he get her a fur coat, and since he cannot afford to buy one, he goes on a hunting trip, hoping to capture some furs himself. Meanwhile, a temperamental actress, needing a rest for her nerves, has made plans to visit the same hunting lodge where Bill will be staying. They and several others meet at the lodge, resulting in chaos and confusion.
Waiter
An ambitious New York socialite plans an extravagant dinner party as her businessman husband, Oliver, contends with financial woes, causing a lot of tension between the couple. Meanwhile, their high-society friends and associates, including the gruff Dan Packard and his sultry spouse, Kitty, contend with their own entanglements, leading to revelations at the much-anticipated dinner.
Butcher Weighing Sausages
The title refers to the business of affable, ambitious bail bondsman (and politically-connected grifter) Bill Bailey, who, in the course of his work, crosses paths with every kind of offender there is, from first-time defendants to career criminals.
Prof. Glantz
Ruthless Coach Gore creates turmoil at a college by hiring players and alienating students. Along the way, the coach loses his wife Claire Gore to a grandstanding player. Inside look at college football of the 1930s replete with fake grades, non-student players, and the importance of football to a college's reputation.
Weininger
In a make-believe, mittleuropean kingdom, a vivacious but dim country girl sings in a beer garden for her rent money. Meanwhile, the king is facing bankruptcy for his little nation, unless he marries a rich but undesirable queen of another comic opera principality. Eventually he takes in the struggling young singer, and they fall in love, despite possible ruin.
Franklyn's Chauffeur (uncredited)
A young woman's ambitious boyfriend falls for a ditzy socialite.
Fralick
브로드웨이 프로듀서로 코미디 뮤지컬을 제작해 온 체스터 켄트는 유성 영화의 등장으로 인해 사업상의 위기를 맞이한다. 궁여지책 끝에 그는 짧은 뮤지컬식 영화 도입부를 제작해주는 사업으로 크게 성공을 거두게 된다. 하지만 곧 새로운 아이디어를 내야 한다는 압박에 시달리고, 설상가상으로 라이벌은 그의 작품들을 훔쳐내간다. 그리고 주변의 크고 작은 문제들까지 겹쳐 위기에 봉착하게 되는데... 뮤지컬 감독으로서 버스비 버클리 최고의 뮤지컬 장면들을 감상할 수 있는 영화. (2010년 4회 서울충무로국제영화제)
Heinrich Mickelmeier
Bobby Clark and Paul McCullough fake the playing of a violin so they can go on the radio.
Max Herman
"In the Gay Nineties New York had grown up into bustles and balloon Sleeves ... but The Bowery had grown younger, louder and more rowdy until it was known as the 'Livest Mile on the face of the globe' ... the cradle of men who were later to be famous.
Sam, stage director
An elderly detective sets out to find who murdered a lecherous stage actor. His estranged wife? His would-be fiancee? Her father? Her boyfriend? A suicided actress's sister? The temperamental prop man? Or maybe the show's talented female chimpanzee?
Willy
Fast-talker extraordinaire Tracy gives one of his quintessential wiseguy performances as a conniving ambulance chaser who falls in love with Evans, unaware she's a special investigator for a streetcar company he's repeatedly victimized.
Schultz (Uncredited)
Gunner and Bucker are friends who work as riveters. Whenever Bucker gets the urge to marry, which is often, Gunner will hit on his girl to see if she is true or not. So far, Gunner hasn't failed. But one night, while Gunner is in jail, Bucker meets Mary, a tough dame with a line. He falls for her, and she falls for his money. But Mary is already a gal pal of Gunner, and no two know about the third one. The trouble starts when the triangle is revealed too late.
Swiss Postal Clerk (uncredited)
세계 1차 대전의 상황에서 헨리는 작가의 꿈을 접고 의료병의로 자원하여 근무하게 된다. 어느날 영국에서 온 임시 간호원 캐서린을 만나게 되고, 헨리가 부상을 당해 병원에 입원해 있는동안 캐서린의 간호속에 두사람은 깊은 사랑에 빠지게 되고 꿈같은 시간을 함께 보내던 어느 날 캐서린은 자신의 임신 사실을 헨리에게 알린다. 하지만 당시 유부녀는 전방에 있을수 없다는 규율 때문에 결혼은 불가능 했다.전방으로 간 헨리 중위를 기다리고 있는것은 과로로 정신이 이상해진 리날디 소령이었다. 자신의 도움을 필요로하는 부상병을 버리고 후퇴했다는 자책감으로 헛소리를 하는 리날디 소령을 헌병들이 독일 첩자라 단정짓고 체포한다. 그를 변호하던 헨리 중위도 같이 체포되고 리날리 소령의 총살형 장면을 목격한 헨리는 군사 재판소에서 탈주를 한다. 간신히 캐서린은 헨리중위를 설득하여 스위스로 탈출을 감행한다. 무사히 스위스에 도착한 헨니와 케서린은 아이의 출산만을 기다리며 행복한 나날을 보낸다. 마침내 진통이 시작된 캐서린은 생각지도 못한 난산을 격게 되는데...
Pepi
Gifted German wrestler Polokai falls in love with ex-con Laura, who persuades him to emigrate to America and gets him involved with crooked promoters.
Professor Irving Finklestein (uncredited)
Although Vivian Revere is seemingly the most successful of a trio of reunited schoolmates, she throws it away by descending into a life of debauchery and drugs.
Barfly
Just prior to the outbreak of World War I, in the British West African town of Akkra, English woman Myra Carson becomes involved in a scandal and is deported. While Myra's ship is docked at Duala, in German West Africa, the war breaks out and she finds herself facing internment by the Germans.
E.F. McSorley
Linda Gault is a luxury loving wife who casually seduces other men while getting investment tips from one of her lovers.
First Waiter (uncredited)
An Indiana boy comes into an inheritance and moves to New York City, living it up with his girlfriend until he gets in over his head and someone gets killed.
Emil
A New York gossip columnist feuds with a singer and enjoys the power of the press.
Schwabacher, the Funeral Director (uncredited)
A policeman in need of money is persuaded to take a $1000 bribe to stay away the night a packing house is to be robbed.
Otto Hoopengarner, the Dutchman
A struggling writer divorces his wife to pursue his career without interference, but they meet in Europe years later after she has remarried.
Franz Odenheimer (uncredited)
반 미치광이 과학자 미라클 박사를 내세워 그의 공포 추리물을 구성한다. 그의 변태 성욕과 환각의 도구로 고릴라 한 마리를 데리고 도시에 나타난 미라클 박사앞에 아름다운 여성 카밀이 등장하고 고릴라는 카밀에게 사랑을 느끼게 된다. 미라클 박사는 음산한 밤 도시의 안개낀 어둠을 헤치고 젊은 여성들만을 골라납치하여 그의 새 생명 실험의 도구로 쓴다. 고릴라의 혈청을 젊고 싱싱한 여인의 몸에 주입하여 새로운 생명을 얻으려는 시도는 번번히 희생자의 죽음으로 끝이나고 도시에는 알수 없는 젊은 여인의 변사체가 셋이나 발견이 되는데...
Fritz Tannenbaum
A gambler falls for a fake countess.
Train Conductor (uncredited)
Amanda and Elyot are one another's former spouse. Elyot remarries to Sibyl, Amanda weds Victor. Unexpectedly, both honeymooning couples arrive to a hotel on the same day and are put in rooms with adjoining terraces. Things go well until Amanda sees Elyot on the adjacent terrace.
A Creditor
An acclaimed actor and his equally acclaimed actress wife, who have been married for less than a year, are already showing signs of strain in their marriage. The actor believes his wife is capable of infidelity and sets out to prove this is so. Disguising himself as the kind of man he believes she fancies (a Russian military officer), the actor woos his wife while she believes her husband to be out of town.
Losseck
An aspiring classical singer is romanced by both a famous opera star and his younger understudy.
Larry - the Bartender (uncredited)
A young woman reunites with the father she's not seen since early childhood, also falls in love with a sailor who wishes to marry her, and eventually is forced to reveal to each man about her dark past. (NOTE: This is the German language version.)
Bing
Broadway actress leaves New York to become a star in Hollywood, and succeeds despite sleazy directors and her own ego.
German Director
Heir to a Balkan throne, Prince Nicholai falls in love with an American vocalist who is touring with an operetta company in Europe. When he makes known his intention to renounce his heritage and marry Mary Lou, his mother has him locked up and orders Mary Lou back to the United States.
Writer
독일 바이에른에 사는 버늘 부인은 홀로 프란츠, 요한, 안드레아스, 조셉까지 네 아들을 키우며 살고 있다. 막내 조셉이 미국에서 일자리를 얻게 되고, 어머니에게서 여비를 얻어 독일을 떠난다. 한편, 1차 세계대전이 시작되자 이미 입대한 프란츠의 뒤를 이어 요한도 입대를 하고, 안드레아스 역시 징집되어 참전한다. 불행하게도 프란츠와 요한이 동부전선에서 전사하고, 안드레아스 역시 부상을 당한다. 그런데 미국에서 결혼을 하고 식품점을 운영하던 조셉 역시 입영 통지를 받는데, 그는 조국인 독일을 물리쳐야 하는 입장에 선다.
Assistant Director
시골에서 아이를 키우며 정답게 살아가던 부부. 그러나 남편은 도시에서 온 화려한 여자에게 마음을 빼앗기고 그 여자의 유혹에 넘어가 아내를 죽이려 한다. 하지만 아내는 기차를 타고 도망가고 남편은 아내를 죽이려 했다는 것을 후회하며 아내를 따라 기차에 오른다. 어쩔 수 없이 기차를 타고 도시에 도착한 부부. 도시에서 다시 한번 두 사람의 사랑을 깨닫고 다시 집으로 돌아오는데...
Streetcar Conductor (uncredited)
시골에서 아이를 키우며 정답게 살아가던 부부. 그러나 남편은 도시에서 온 화려한 여자에게 마음을 빼앗기고 그 여자의 유혹에 넘어가 아내를 죽이려 한다. 하지만 아내는 기차를 타고 도망가고 남편은 아내를 죽이려 했다는 것을 후회하며 아내를 따라 기차에 오른다. 어쩔 수 없이 기차를 타고 도시에 도착한 부부. 도시에서 다시 한번 두 사람의 사랑을 깨닫고 다시 집으로 돌아오는데...