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Three Bluejackets, One Blonde Girl

1933 film by Carl Boese

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 10, 2026
Entity authorityQ21035651 ↗
Source-derived summary

Three Bluejackets, One Blonde Girl (German: Drei blaue Jungs, ein blondes Mädel) is a 1933 German comedy film directed by Carl Boese and starring Charlotte Ander, Heinz Rühmann and Friedrich Benfer. It was shot at the Babelsberg Studios in Berlin. The film's sets were designed by the art director Karl Machus.

Cast

Charlotte Ander as Ilse Schröder

Heinz Rühmann as Cadet Heini Jäger

Friedrich Benfer as Willy Thiem

Fritz Kampers as Heini's Butenschön

Hans Richter as Fritz, Ilse's brother

Sophie Pagay as Heini's mother

Gerhard Dammann

Karl Hannemann

Hans Hemes

Hans Albin

Adolf Fischer

Karl Klöckner

References

Bibliography

Klaus, Ulrich J. Deutsche Tonfilme: Jahrgang 1933. Klaus-Archiv, 1988.

Editorial summary

“Three Bluejackets, One Blonde Girl” enters the record as 1933 film by Carl Boese. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Three, Bluejackets and Blonde can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA productive route into publication, performance and collection histories when the underlying object or edition remains clearly identified. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1933, 1988—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Three, Bluejackets and Blonde.
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“Three Bluejackets, One Blonde Girl” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Three, Bluejackets and Blonde provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 10, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q21035651. The first chronological checks are 1933 and 1988.

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This entry incorporates text from “Three Bluejackets, One Blonde Girl” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.