''Taxi-Kitty'' is a 1950 West German

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directed by Kurt Hoffmann and starring

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, Carl Raddatz and

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.Bock & Bergfelder p. 207 The film was made at the

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Studios. The film's sets were designed by the

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. It was partly shot in

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Synopsis

In Hamburg, an out-of-work singer gets a job selling refreshments in a canteen for

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s. When she gets her big break as a singer, she turns it down to marry one of the drivers.

Cast

as Kitty Grille * Carl Raddatz as Charly *

as Elvira Rembrandt *

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as Barsch *

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as himself *

Inge Meysel Inge Meysel (; 30 May 1910 – 10 July 2004) was a German actress. From the early 1960s until her death, Meysel was one of Germany's most popular actresses. She had a successful stage career and played more than 100 roles in film and on televisio ...

as 1. Sekretärin * Gunnar Möller as Boy *

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as Frau Körner * Susanne Feldmann as 2. Sekretärin

References

Bibliography

* Hans-Michael Bock and Tim Bergfelder. ''The Concise Cinegraph: An Encyclopedia of German Cinema''. Berghahn Books, 2009.

External links

* 1950 films 1950 musical comedy films German musical comedy films West German films 1950s German-language films Films directed by Kurt Hoffmann German black-and-white films 1950s German films Films scored by Franz Grothe {{1950s-Germany-film-stub