''Three Girls Spinning'' (german: Drei Mädchen spinnen) is a 1950 West German
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
Carl Froelich
Carl August Hugo Froelich (5 September 1875 – 12 February 1953) was a German film pioneer and film director. He was born and died in Berlin.
Biography
Apparatus builder and cameraman
From 1903 Froelich was a colleague of Oskar Messter, one of ...
and starring
Albrecht Schoenhals
Albrecht Moritz James Karl Schoenhals (7 March 1888 – 4 December 1978) was a German film actor.
Life
Born Moritz James Karl, Albrecht Schoenhals was the son of the German General upper physician Gustav Schoenhals (1855-1930) and an English ...
,
Adelheid Seeck
Adelheid Seeck (3 November 1912 – 17 February 1973) was a German film actress. She appeared in 27 films between 1941 and 1972. She starred in '' The Last Ones Shall Be First'', which was entered into the 7th Berlin International Film Fest ...
and
Axel von Ambesser
Axel Eugen Alexander von Oesterreich (22 June 1910 – 6 September 1988), better known as Axel von Ambesser, was a German playwright, actor and film director.
Ambesser's father was Alexander Constantin von Oesterreich. Ambesser was born in Hambur ...
.
[Bock & Bergfelder p. 138] It was shot at the
Tempelhof Studios
The Tempelhof Studios are a film studio located in Tempelhof in the German capital of Berlin. They were founded in 1912, during the silent era, by German film pioneer Alfred Duskes, who built a glass-roofed studio on the site with financial back ...
in
Berlin
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. The film's sets were designed by the
art director
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It is the charge of a sole art director to supervise and ...
Erich Kettelhut
Erich Karl Heinrich Kettelhut (1 November 1893 – 13 March 1979) was a German production designer, Art director#In film, art director and set decorator. Kettelhut is considered one of the most important artists in the history of early German cin ...
.
Cast
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Albrecht Schoenhals
Albrecht Moritz James Karl Schoenhals (7 March 1888 – 4 December 1978) was a German film actor.
Life
Born Moritz James Karl, Albrecht Schoenhals was the son of the German General upper physician Gustav Schoenhals (1855-1930) and an English ...
as Eduard Amberg
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Adelheid Seeck
Adelheid Seeck (3 November 1912 – 17 February 1973) was a German film actress. She appeared in 27 films between 1941 and 1972. She starred in '' The Last Ones Shall Be First'', which was entered into the 7th Berlin International Film Fest ...
as Magda Amberg
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Axel von Ambesser
Axel Eugen Alexander von Oesterreich (22 June 1910 – 6 September 1988), better known as Axel von Ambesser, was a German playwright, actor and film director.
Ambesser's father was Alexander Constantin von Oesterreich. Ambesser was born in Hambur ...
as Professor Hartwig
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Georg Thomalla
Georg Thomalla (14 February 1915 – 25 August 1999) was a German actor. He appeared in about one hundred fifty film and television productions between 1939 and 2000 and was widely known in Germany for his comedic roles.
Thomalla was well k ...
as Bollmann
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Renate Barken as Beate Amberg
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Maria Körber as Elfriede Amberg
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Susanne Körber-Harlan as Maxi Amberg
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Harald Juhnke
Harald Juhnke () (born Harry Heinz Herbert Juhnke, 10 June 1929 – 1 April 2005), was a German actor, comedian, and singer.
Life and career
Juhnke was born in Berlin-Charlottenburg. His father was a police officer and his mother came from a ...
as Pfarrer Krempel
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Otto Gebühr
Otto Gebühr (29 May 1877 – 13 March 1954) was a German theatre and film actor, who appeared in 102 films released between 1917 and 1954. He is noted for his performance as the Prussian king Frederick the Great in numerous films.
Early lif ...
as Lehmann
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Bully Buhlan as Singer
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Oscar Sabo
Oscar Sabo (29 August 1881, in Vienna – 2 May 1969, in Berlin) was an Austrian actor.
Selected filmography
* '' Jettatore'' (1919)
* ''The False Dimitri'' (1922)
* '' Storm in a Water Glass'' (1931)
* ''The Little Escapade'' (1931)
* '' The Span ...
as Briefträger
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Agnes Windeck
Agnes Windeck (; 27 March 1888 – 28 September 1975) was a German theatre and film actress. She appeared in more than 50 films between 1939 and 1973. She was born in Hamburg and started her career at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in 1904. S ...
as Wirtschafterin
References
Bibliography
* Bock, Hans-Michael & Bergfelder, Tim. ''The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema''. Berghahn Books, 2009.
External links
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1950 films
1950 comedy films
German comedy films
West German films
1950s German-language films
Films directed by Carl Froelich
German black-and-white films
1950s German films
Films shot at Tempelhof Studios
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