Cinema
Little Mother
Kleine Mutti
Henry Koster · 1935
Synopsis
Marie Bonnard, a boarder at a boarding school, finds an abandoned newborn on the steps of an orphanage. She is taken for the mother and no one listens when she defends herself; expelled from school, penniless, she has to manage with the child. She takes a job as a vacuum cleaner saleswoman, and chance leads her to the house of the real father.
Context
Produced in Vienna by Universal's European subsidiary, under the direction of Joe Pasternak and from a screenplay by Felix Joachimson, the film was released on 20 April 1935. It was an international success but remained little known in German-speaking countries: the Aryan clause of the German industry affected its star, the Hungarian Franziska Gaal. Otto Wallburg, Annie Rosar and Rudolf Carl play the other roles.
Who it is for
Ninety minutes of comedy of errors, to be taken for what it is. The opening, with the dismissal and the poverty, is harder than what follows.
Prizes and reception
An international success, remade by Hollywood in 1939 with Ginger Rogers and David Niven, then again in 1956.
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