My Friend Barbara (1937)
Barbara's family is poor and she needs to come up with a way to pay the gas bill. At her job in a cinema she listens to the conversation of a cheating wife and her affair. Barbara offers the husband of the cheating wife, a wealthy chemist, to help him get his wife back. Her plan is a bizarre sharade in which Barbara plays the role of the chemist's affair to make his wife jealous. Of course, this backfires in every way imaginable.
- Released
- 1937-12-17
- Genres
- Comedy
- Runtime
- 80 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Fritz Kirchhoff, Willi Kollo, Fritz Kirchhoff
- TMDB rating
- 8.0/10 from 1 votes
Cast
- Grethe Weiser as Barbara
- Franz Zimmermann as Frank Andermann
- Paul Hoffmann as Dr. Manfred Reinerz, Chemiker und Erfinder
- Elisabeth Ried as Stefanie
- Ingeborg von Kusserow as Lucie
- Ellen Bang as Ursula, Barbaras jüngere Schwester
- Manny Ziener as Frau Werner, Barbaras und Ursulas Mutter
- Hans Leibelt as Andermann sen.
- Wilhelm P. Krüger as Lohmeyer, Hauswart
- Arthur Schröder as Der Hotelchef
- Jakob Tiedtke as Stockinger
- Luise Morland as Emelie
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