''That's No Way to Land a Man'' () is a 1959 West German

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directed by

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and starring

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and Karin Baal.Bock & Bergfelder p. 158 It was shot at the

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. The film's sets were designed by the

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Cast

as Elsbeth Müller *

as Tessy * Karin Baal as Monika * Sabine Eggerth as Angela *

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as Stefan Reimer * Peter Vogel as Fritz Becker *

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as Wilhelm Böckelmann *

Erica Beer Erica Beer (19 January 1925 – 27 December 2013) was a German film actress. She was born in Munich. Selected filmography * ''Captive Soul'' (1952) * ''The Last Waltz'' (1953) * '' Heartbroken on the Moselle'' (1953) * '' They Were So Young'' ...

as Vera Reinhardt *

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as Anton Scheufele * Fritz Rémond Jr. as Opernsänger Müller * Walter Ambrock as Günther Arnold *

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as Horst Burkhardt *

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as Fräulein Stenzel *

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as Trainer *

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as Sänger * Ivo Carraro as Sänger

References

Bibliography

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

External links

* 1959 films 1959 comedy films German comedy films West German films 1950s German-language films Films directed by Hans Deppe 1950s German films Films shot at Göttingen Studios Films scored by Heino Gaze {{1950s-Germany-comedy-film-stub