Don't Lose Heart, Suzanne!

Plot

A young woman's attempts to break into the film industry are thwarted by two unscrupulous producers.

Background

The film's sets were designed by the art directors Erich Grave and Karl Vollbrecht. The film offered support to the Nazi Party's anti-Semitic stance by a negative portrayal of the two Jewish film producers. It received strong official backing and a gala premiere was arranged for its release by Joseph Goebbels. To Goebbels' surprise and disgust the first night audience booed once the screening was over. The incident was largely hushed-up and the film's director Arzén von Cserépy went back to his native Hungary in disgrace and never made another German film.

The film was a success however for the young actress Hilde Krüger. Following this film she was given the patronage of Goebbels. She was to appear in twenty more films and went on to be a spy for Germany.

Cast

Jessie Vihrog as Susanne Kirchner

Veit Harlan as Georg Brinkmann

Willi Schur as Generaldirektor Sally Gold

Ernst Rotmund as Produktionsleiter Archinowitz

Maly Delschaft as Filmdiva

Harry Frank as Filmstar

Eugen Rex as Regisseur

Hans Adalbert Schlettow as Detektiv

Rotraut Richter as Grete

Ellen Bang as Lilli

Josef Dahmen as Kurvenkarl

Heinz Berghaus

Gerhard Dammann

Josefine Dora as Tante Frieda

Hugo Flink as Redakteur

Aribert Grimmer as Kommissar

Karl Harbacher

Max Hochstetter

Maria Krahn

Hilde Krüger

Hermann Picha

Karl Platen

Max Ralph-Ostermann as Schmidt - Rechtsanwalt

Carla Rust

Ernst Albert Schaach as Vizepräsident

Robert Thiem as Fredy Miller - Regieassistent