''Chaste Susanne'' (german: Die keusche Susanne) is a 1926
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silent comedy film
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directed by
Richard Eichberg
Richard Eichberg (27 October 1888 – 8 May 1952) was a German film director and producer. He directed 87 films between 1915 and 1949. He also produced 77 films between 1915 and 1950. He was born in Berlin, Germany and died in Munich, Germ ...
and starring
Lilian Harvey
Lilian Harvey (born Helene Lilian Muriel Pape; 19 January 1906 – 27 July 1968) was an Anglo-German actress and singer, long based in Germany, where she is best known for her role as Christel Weinzinger in Erik Charell's 1931 film ''Der Kongre ...
,
Willy Fritsch
Willy Fritsch (27 January 1901 – 13 July 1973) was a German theater and film actor, a popular leading man and character actor from the silent-film era to the early 1960s.
Biography Early life
He was born Wilhelm Egon Fritz Fritsch, the only s ...
and
Ruth Weyher
Ruth Weyher (28 May 1901 – 27 January 1983) was a German film actress of the silent era. She appeared in 60 films between 1920 and 1930. She starred in the 1926 film ''Secrets of a Soul'', which was directed by Georg Wilhelm Pabst.
Selected f ...
. It is based on the 1910 operetta ''
Die keusche Susanne
''Die keusche Susanne'' (''Chaste Susanne'') is an operetta in three acts by Jean Gilbert. The German libretto was by Georg Okonkowski, based on the 1906 play ''Le fils à papa'' by Antony Mars and Maurice Desvallières. Jean Gilbert's son, Robe ...
'' composed by
Jean Gilbert
Jean Gilbert (11 February 1879 – 20 December 1942), born Max Winterfeld, was a German operetta composer and conductor.
Life and career
Gilbert was born in Hamburg into a family of musicians; his ancestors were cantors of the Jewish communi ...
with a
libretto
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by
Georg Okonkowski. In Britain it was released under the
alternative title
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''The Girl in the Taxi'' in reference to ''
The Girl in the Taxi
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'' in the
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version of the operetta. The film's art direction is by
Jacek Rotmil
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. It was filmed at the
Johannisthal Studios
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in
Berlin
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.
It marked the first pairing of Harvey and Fritsch who went on to become the leading screen couple in
Weimar
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and early
Nazi
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cinema. The film premiered at the
UFA-Palast am Zoo
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and was a smash hit on its release.
[Kreimeier p. 115]
Cast
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Lilian Harvey
Lilian Harvey (born Helene Lilian Muriel Pape; 19 January 1906 – 27 July 1968) was an Anglo-German actress and singer, long based in Germany, where she is best known for her role as Christel Weinzinger in Erik Charell's 1931 film ''Der Kongre ...
as Jacqueline
*
Willy Fritsch
Willy Fritsch (27 January 1901 – 13 July 1973) was a German theater and film actor, a popular leading man and character actor from the silent-film era to the early 1960s.
Biography Early life
He was born Wilhelm Egon Fritz Fritsch, the only s ...
as René Boislurette
*
Ruth Weyher
Ruth Weyher (28 May 1901 – 27 January 1983) was a German film actress of the silent era. She appeared in 60 films between 1920 and 1930. She starred in the 1926 film ''Secrets of a Soul'', which was directed by Georg Wilhelm Pabst.
Selected f ...
as Susanne
*
Otto Wallburg
Otto Wallburg (21 February 1889 – 29 October 1944) was a German actor and Kabarett performer. He was a prolific film actor during the late silent and early sound era.
Wallburg was born Otto Maximilian Wasserzug in Berlin, the son of a Jewish ...
as Charency
*
Hans Junkermann
Hennes "Hans" Junkermann (6 May 1934 – 11 April 2022) was a German professional racing cyclist who won 35 road races in 18 seasons from 1956 to 1973. He won the German National Road Race in 1959, 1960, and 1961.
Biography
Junkermann was bor ...
as Baron Aubrais
*
Lydia Potechina
Lydia Potechina (5 September 1883 – 30 April 1934) was a Russian actress. She emigrated to Germany in 1918. She was married to the Russian-German film producer Max Pfeiffer.
Selected filmography
*''Destiny'' (1921)
* '' The Conspiracy in Genoa ...
as Baronin Aubrais
*
Sascha Bragowa as Charencys Frau Rose
*
Werner Fuetterer
Werner Fuetterer (10 January 1907 in Barth, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern – 7 February 1991 in Benidorm, Province of Alicante, Spain) was a German film actor. He appeared in nearly 100 films between 1925 and 1967.
In his early film career, Fuetterer ...
as Hubert
*
Hans Wassmann
Hans Wassmann (1 January 1873 – 5 April 1932) was a German film actor.Chandler p.271
Selected filmography
* '' Laugh Bajazzo'' (1915)
* '' Miss Venus'' (1921)
* '' Louise de Lavallière'' (1922)
* '' A Glass of Water'' (1923)
* '' Nanon'' (1924 ...
as Dr. med. Pomarel
*
Ernst Hofmann
Ernst Karl Heinrich Hofmann (7 December 1880 – 27 April 1945) was a German stage and film actor.
Selected filmography
* '' The White Roses'' (1916)
* '' Dr. Hart's Diary'' (1917)
* '' Countess Kitchenmaid'' (1918)
* '' Ikarus, the Flying Man ...
as Henry, Renés Freund
*
Wilhelm Bendow
Wilhelm Bendow (29 September 1884 – 29 May 1950) was a German film actor who appeared in many films during his career. Bendow made his debut in the 1913 film '' Aus eines Mannes Mädchenzeit''.Elsässer p.106
Selected filmography
* '' Lust for ...
*
Albert Paulig
Albert Paulig (14 January 1873 – 19 March 1933) was a German film actor who was popular during the silent era. Paulig made his first film in 1914. The following year he appeared in one of Ernst Lubitsch's first directorial attempts, '' A Trip on ...
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