A Woman Who Knows What She Wants (German: Eine Frau, die weiß, was sie will) is a 1934 Czechoslovak musical comedy film directed by Victor Janson and starring Lil Dagover, Anton Edthofer, and Anton Walbrook,[1] a German-language version of Czech film A Woman Who Knows What She Wants. It is an adaptation of a 1932 stage musical of the same title, with music by Oscar Straus. It was filmed at the Barrandov Studios in Prague.
The musical was adapted again as a 1958 West German film of the same title.
Cast
- Lil Dagover as Mona Cavallini, Revuestar
- Anton Edthofer as Erik Mattisson, industrialist
- Maria Beling as Karin, his daughter
- Anton Walbrook as Axel Basse
- Kurt Vespermann as Peter Kasten
- Hans Junkermann as Dr. Frank Heyberg, lawyer
- Werner Finck as Kalmann, press secretary
- Hubert von Meyerinck as Lynge, banker
- Inge John as Kalman's secretary
- Leo Peukert as Almers, director
- Pepi Glöckner-Kramer as Babette, wardrobe mistress
- Franz Scharwenka as President of Paranarena
- C. W. Tetting as his Adjutant
- Michael von Newlinsky as Prim
References
- ^ Hake, Sabine (2009). Bock, Hans-Michael; Bergfelder, Tim (eds.). The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema. New York: Berghahn Books. p. 78. doi:10.2307/j.ctt1x76dm6. ISBN 978-1571816559. JSTOR j.ctt1x76dm6.
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