Lucky Kids (1936)
After completing work on the British musical Invitation to the Waltz, Lillian Harvey returned to her adopted country of Germany to star in the comedy-with-music Glueckskinder (Children of Fortune). Harvey plays Ann Garden, an unemployed actress who ends up in night court on a loitering charge. Here she meets Gil Taylor (Willy Fritsch), a struggling songwriter temporarily employed as a court reporter. Hoping to keep her out of jail, Gil impulsively tells the judge that he's engaged to Ann -- whereupon the judge, equally impulsively, marries the couple on the spot! After this inauspicious start, Ann and Gil embark upon a rocky (but tuneful) whirlwind romance.
- Released
- 1936-09-19
- Genres
- Romance, Comedy, Music
- Runtime
- 93 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Paul Martin
- TMDB rating
- 6.9/10 from 10 votes
Cast
- Willy Fritsch as Gil Taylor, Reporter
- Lilian Harvey as Ann Garden
- Oskar Sima as Stoddard, Reporter
- Albert Florath as Ölmagnat Mr. Jackson
- Paul Bildt as Schnellrichter
- Paul Kemp as Frank Black, Reporter
- Fred Goebel as Bill
- Erich Kestin as Hopkins
- Otto Stoeckel as Chefredakteur Manning
- Max Hiller as Standesbeamter
- Hermann Mayer-Falkow as Schallterbeamter beim Morning Post