The Model Husband (1937 film)

The Model Husband (German:Der Mustergatte) is a 1937 German comedy film directed by Wolfgang Liebeneiner and starring Heinz Rühmann, Leny Marenbach and Hans Söhnker.^[1] It is based on a 1915 American play Fair and Warmer by Avery Hopwood. The film was screened at the Venice Film Festival where it won an award. In the 1950s it was remade twice: a 1956 West German film The Model Husband and a 1959 Swiss The Model Husband.

Synopsis

A London banker makes a business trip to Venice where he falls in love with a woman who thinks her friend is cheating. They marry, but she soon gets bored because he's the "model husband" - the way she wished previously: he barely looks at other women - in turn no woman shows interest in him -- moral of the story: she said she wished for the model husband but unconsciously desires a Don Juan. Once he understands, he acts like one (a little) and she falls in love again.

The film was censored for youth by the Nazis.

Partial cast

• Heinz Rühmann as Billy Bartlett
• Leny Marenbach as Margret Bartlett
• Hans Söhnker as Jack Wheeler
• Heli Finkenzeller as Doddy Wheeler
• Werner Fuetterer as Fred Evans
• Jola Jobst as Ellen Wilson
• Leopold von Ledebur as Sparkins
• Josi Holsten as Exotin
• Alexa von Porembsky as Mary
• Richard Ulrich as Georg
• Ernst Legal as Möbelpacker

References

1. ↑ Hake p.95

Bibliography

• Bock, Hans-Michael & Bergfelder, Tim. The Concise CineGraph. Encyclopedia of German Cinema. Berghahn Books, 2009.
• Hake, Sabine. Popular Cinema of the Third Reich. University of Texas Press, 2001.

External links

• The Model Husband at the Internet Movie Database