The Girl with a Good Reputation
1938 German comedy film directed by Hans Schweikart
The Girl with a Good Reputation (German: Das Mädchen mit dem guten Ruf) is a 1938 German comedy film directed by Hans Schweikart and starring Olga Tschechowa, Attila Hörbiger and Josef Eichheim. It was shot at the Tempelhof Studios and Marienfelde Studios in Berlin. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Kurt Herlth and Werner Schlichting. It is based on the 1753 play The Mistress of the Inn by Carlo Goldoni, updated to the present day.
Synopsis
A travelling cinema arrives in a small, Italian town. The only place suitable for the screenings is the inn run by Mirandolina, a woman with an impeccable reputation. Tino, who works for the cinema, becomes enamoured of Mirandolina but finds his advances to her hindered by her upright reputation and the rivalry of local figures.
Cast
Olga Tschechowa as Mirandolina
Attila Hörbiger as Tino
Josef Eichheim as Pedro
Will Dohm as Tomasini
Anton Pointner as Pandolfo
Robert Dorsay as Lorenzo, Kellner
Alexa von Porembsky as Bianca
Franz Nicklisch as Battista
Max Gülstorff as Lombardi
Ernst Legal as Cosmo
Kurt Vespermann as Olivieri
Ilya Günten as Rosaura Pinetti
Eugen Wieber as Losverkäufer
Ludwig Schmitz as Loszieher
Karl Harbacher as Gendarm
Margarete Faas as Verwandte
References
Bibliography
Klaus, Ulrich J. Deutsche Tonfilme: Jahrgang 1938. Klaus-Archiv, 1988.
Rentschler, Eric.
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