Robert A. Stemmle — Playwright (7)

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Lucky Kids (1936) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Glückskinder
director: Paul Martin actor: Willy Fritsch / Lilian Harvey …
other title: Glückskinder / Laissez faire les femmes ! …
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.

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The Cuckoos (1949) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Die Kuckucks
director: Hans Deppe actor: Ina Halley / Rainer Penkert …
other title: Die Kuckucks
Berlin, shortly after World War II. Five parentless siblings, led by the oldest sister Inge Kuckert, search for a place to stay and a basis of existence in the destroyed city. A bombed villa in the Grunewald seems to be the right "cuckoo's nest", but an alleged authorised disposal tries to drive the siblings out of the building. Fortunately, the friendly neighbor can help.

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Mercenaries of the Rio Grande (1965) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Der Schatz der Azteken
other title: Der Schatz der Azteken / Le trésor des Aztèques …
Dr. Karl Sternau, the personal physician of the count Bismarck, who spent much of his youth in Mexico, is sent back to that country during the occupation by French troops in the service of the Austrian 'Emperor' Maximilian, to carry an encouraging letter from U.S. President Lincoln to the nationalist Mexican president Benito Juarez.