''His Wife's Lover'' (1931, original

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title ''Zayn Vaybs Lubovnik'') was billed as the "first

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musical comedy Musical theatre is a form of theatrical performance that combines songs, spoken dialogue, acting and dance. The story and emotional content of a musical – humor, pathos, love, anger – are communicated through words, music, movement ...

talking picture". A play before it as a film, it was based on

Ferenc Molnár Ferenc Molnár ( , ; born Ferenc Neumann; 12 January 18781 April 1952), often anglicized as Franz Molnar, was a Hungarian-born author, stage-director, dramatist, and poet, widely regarded as Hungary’s most celebrated and controversial play ...

's ''The Guardsman''. Ludwig Satz, who also wrote the songs, plays an actor who disguises himself as an old man, wins the hand of a beautiful young woman, then adopts a different persona and tries to seduce her to test her fidelity. Satz's performance in this farce has been compared to the work of later Jewish comic performers such as

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''His Wife's Lover''
at cine-holocaust.de. This is probably the most detailed online reference, and has an extensive bibliography. Retrieved March 9, 2005.
Program
of The 3rd Annual Jewish Film Festival, University Film Society, Minneapolis, MN, 1999, retrieved March 9, 2005. 1931 films 1931 musical comedy films 1931 romantic comedy films American musical comedy films American romantic comedy films American romantic musical films American black-and-white films American films based on plays Films based on works by Ferenc Molnár Yiddish-language films American independent films 1930s romantic musical films 1930s American films {{romantic-musical-film-stub