''Every Woman Has Something'' (German: ''Jede Frau hat etwas'') is a 1931 American
comedy film
A comedy film is a category of film which emphasizes humor. These films are designed to make the audience laugh through amusement. Films in this style traditionally have a happy ending (black comedy being an exception). Comedy is one of the ol ...
directed by
Leo Mittler
Leo Mittler (18 December 1893 – 16 May 1958) was an Austrian playwright, screenwriter and film director. Mittler was born in Vienna, then the capital of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, to a Jewish family. He attended the University of Music and Per ...
and starring
Trude Berliner
Trude Berliner (28 February 1903 – 26 February 1977) was a German actress. She was one of many Jewish actors and actresses who were forced to flee Europe when the Nazis came to power in 1933.
Biography
Berliner was born Gertrude Berliner in Be ...
,
Willy Clever
Willy Clever (1905 in Elberfeld –1969) was a German actor and screenwriter.Silberman p.239 He worked on several multi-language versions at the Joinville Studios in Paris during the early years of sound.
Selected filmography
* '' Spring Awakenin ...
and
Kurt Vespermann
Kurt Vespermann (1 May 1887 – 13 July 1957) was a German stage and film actor.
Career
Vespermann was born into an actor's family in Culmsee, West Prussia, Imperial Germany today Chełmża, Poland. Already his great-grandparents were ac ...
.
[Stach & Morsbach p.54] It is the
German-language
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version of the 1930 film ''
Honey
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''. Several other language versions were made, as was common in the early years of
sound
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In human physiology and psychology, sound is the ''reception'' of such waves and their ''perception'' by the ...
when
multi-language version
A multiple-language version film, often abbreviated to MLV, is a film, especially from the early talkie era, produced in several different languages for international markets. To offset the marketing restrictions of making sound films in only one ...
s were made to release in different countries.
Cast
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Trude Berliner
Trude Berliner (28 February 1903 – 26 February 1977) was a German actress. She was one of many Jewish actors and actresses who were forced to flee Europe when the Nazis came to power in 1933.
Biography
Berliner was born Gertrude Berliner in Be ...
as Olivia Dangerfield
*
Willy Clever
Willy Clever (1905 in Elberfeld –1969) was a German actor and screenwriter.Silberman p.239 He worked on several multi-language versions at the Joinville Studios in Paris during the early years of sound.
Selected filmography
* '' Spring Awakenin ...
as Burton
*
Kurt Vespermann
Kurt Vespermann (1 May 1887 – 13 July 1957) was a German stage and film actor.
Career
Vespermann was born into an actor's family in Culmsee, West Prussia, Imperial Germany today Chełmża, Poland. Already his great-grandparents were ac ...
as Charles Dangerfield, Bruder
*
Annie Ann
Annie may refer to:
People and fictional characters
* Annie (given name), a given name and a list of people and fictional characters with the name
* Annie (actress) (born 1975), Indian actress
* Annie (singer) (born 1977), Norwegian singer
The ...
as Cora Falkner, Tochter
*
Ida Perry
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*243 Ida, an asteroid
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as Frau Falkner
*
Karl Harbacher
Karl Harbacher (1879–1943) was an Austrian actor.
Selected filmography
* '' Miss Piccolo'' (1914)
* '' No Sin on the Alpine Pastures'' (1915)
* ''Fanny Elssler'' (1920)
* '' Das blaue Duell'' (1920)
* ''The Adventuress of Monte Carlo'' (1921)
* ...
as Weeks
*
Kurt Lilien
Kurt Lilien (born Kurt Lilienthal; 6 August 1882 – 28 May 1943) was a German actor. He appeared in 50 films between 1919 and 1933. Lilien was born into a Jewish family, Lilien would be arrested and sent to Sobibor extermination camp by the ...
as Williams, Privatdetektiv
*
Zacharova as Mayme, Stubenmädchen
*
Alexandra Nalder
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as Doris, ihre Tochter
References
Bibliography
* Babett Stach & Helmut Morsbach. ''German film posters: 1895 - 1945''. Walter de Gruyter, 1992.
External links
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1931 films
American comedy films
1931 comedy films
1930s German-language films
Films directed by Leo Mittler
Paramount Pictures films
Films shot in France
Films shot at Joinville Studios
American multilingual films
American black-and-white films
Films based on works by Alice Duer Miller
1931 multilingual films
1930s American films
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