''A Blonde Dream'' () is a 1932 German

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directed by

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and starring

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and

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. A separate English-language version '' Happy Ever After'' was made as a co-production with

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. A French-language version was also released. It was shot at the

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. The film's sets were designed by the

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Plot

Berlin at the height of the Depression at the beginning of the 1930s. Two window cleaners from the Blitz-Blank cleaning company, Willy I and Willy II, cycle back and forth through the big city from job to job, from house to house, with a ladder and washing utensils. They get along brilliantly and only clash when both are interested in the same girl. One day the blonde Jou-Jou enters her life. They see her through the window of the American Consulate General. When Jou-Jou is about to be thrown out of the building by the gruff porter, the two come to her defense. Jou-Jou, who earns her living as a projectile in a traveling circus, dreams of a film career in America. A Mr. Merryman, presenting himself as a Hollywood mogul, once promised her a film career, charging her $25 for his services. The two Willys decide to help the girl. They take her home first so that she and her shaggy mongrel nicknamed Buffalo have a roof over their heads. The two protagonists live poorly but happily on the outskirts of the city, occupying two disused but wildly romantic railway carriages that are looked after by an odd guy called 'Scarecrow'. Jou-Jou is assigned a separate express train carriage as her private accommodation. But soon it becomes obvious that both Willy I and Willy II have their eyes on the blonde dream. "Scarecrow" warns Jou-Jou that her presence is threatening to severely test the friendship of the two window cleaners. When the girl reads in the newspaper that Mr. Merryman is in Berlin, the decision seems easy and she returns to Berlin. But disillusionment follows. It turns out that the man who introduced himself as Mr. Merryman was an impostor. But once she has met the real Mr. Merryman, she actually pesters him into hiring her. To bring the whole affair to an all-round happy conclusion, Willy I and Jou-Jou become a couple and Willy II scores a cushy job in Mr. Merryman's business.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Blonde Dream, A 1932 musical comedy films German musical comedy films Films of the Weimar Republic Films directed by Paul Martin 1930s buddy films German multilingual films UFA GmbH films Films produced by Erich Pommer Films with screenplays by Billy Wilder German black-and-white films Films set in Berlin Films shot in Berlin 1932 multilingual films 1930s German-language films 1930s German films Films shot at Babelsberg Studios Films scored by Werner R. Heymann German-language musical comedy films