Without Meyer, No Celebration is Complete
| Without Meyer, No Celebration is Complete | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Carl Boese |
| Produced by | Gustav Althoff |
| Written by |
Curt J. Braun Fritz Falkenstein |
| Starring |
Sig Arno Ralph Arthur Roberts Dina Gralla Adele Sandrock |
| Music by | Artur Guttmann |
| Cinematography |
Hans Karl Gottschalk Willy Hameister |
| Edited by | Hilde Grebner |
Production company |
Aco-Film |
| Distributed by | Albö-Film |
Release date | 27 October 1931 |
Running time | 84 minutes |
| Country | Germany |
| Language | German |
Without Meyer, No Celebration is Complete (German: Keine Feier ohne Meyer) is a 1931 German comedy film directed by Carl Boese and starring Sig Arno, Ralph Arthur Roberts and Dina Gralla.[1] Boese made a number of films featuring Jewish comedians during the Weimar Era.[2]
Synopsis
Meyer, an ambitious young Jewish man, tries to pass himself off as a successful business tycoon in order to marry into an upper-class family. He has impressed the girl's father of his suitability but the daughter shows her reluctance to marrying him because she is in love with another man named Walter. Meyer mistakenly advises Walter to elope with his secret girlfriend, without realising he is sabotaging his own dream of marrying her. In the end Meyer happily settles down with his secretary who has always loved him.
Cast
- Sig Arno as Sigmund Meyer
- Ralph Arthur Roberts as Town Councilman Goebel
- Dina Gralla as Elsa Goebel
- Adele Sandrock as Mother Goebel
- Maly Delschaft as Miss Krauss
- Lucie Englisch as Steno
- Kurt Vespermann as Walter, Elsa's Fiancé
- Gaston Briese as Widower
- Herbert Kiper as Unhappy Husband
- Käte Lenz as Unhappy Wife
- Gerhard Dammann as A Director
- Eugen Neufeld as A Director
- Siegfried Berisch as Husband
- Else Reval as Wife
- Hermann Krehan as Registrar
- Albert Karchow
- Ernst Behmer
- Karl Harbacher
References
Bibliography
- Prawer, S.S. Between Two Worlds: The Jewish Presence in German and Austrian Film, 1910-1933. Berghahn Books, 2005.