My Friend Barbara (1937)
Meine Freundin Barbara
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.
- Date of release
- 1937-12-17
- TMDB
- 8.0 / 10 (1)
- Runtime
- 1h 20m
- Genres
- Comedy
- Director
- Fritz Kirchhoff
Casting
- Grethe Weiser — Barbara
- Franz Zimmermann — Frank Andermann
- Paul Hoffmann — Dr. Manfred Reinerz, Chemiker und Erfinder
- Elisabeth Ried — Stefanie
- Ingeborg von Kusserow — Lucie
- Ellen Bang — Ursula, Barbaras jüngere Schwester
- Manny Ziener — Frau Werner, Barbaras und Ursulas Mutter
- Hans Leibelt — Andermann sen.
- Wilhelm P. Krüger — Lohmeyer, Hauswart
- Arthur Schröder — Der Hotelchef
- Jakob Tiedtke — Stockinger
- Luise Morland — Emelie
Interesting facts
My Friend Barbara is a 1937 German comedy film directed by Fritz Kirchhoff and starring Grethe Weiser, Paul Hoffmann and Ingeborg von Kusserow.
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