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The Model Husband (1937 film)

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Director
  
Wolfgang Liebeneiner

Language
  
German

6.2/10
IMDb

Duration
  

Country
  
Germany

The Model Husband (1937 film) movie poster

Writer
  
Avery Hopwood
,
Jacob Geis
,
Hans Albin

Release date
  
13 October 1937

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. 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.

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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

    The Model Husband (1937 film) Wikipedia
    The Model Husband (1937 film) IMDb The Model Husband (1937 film) themoviedb.org