Tomfoolery (film)

Tomfoolery
Tomfoolery
Directed by	Willi Forst
Written by	; Willi Forst;
Produced by	Fritz Klotsch
Starring	Renate Müller; Jenny Jugo; Anton Walbrook; Heinz Rühmann;
Cinematography	Werner Bohne; Theodore J. Pahle;
Edited by	Hans Wolff
Music by	Peter Kreuder
Production; company	Cine-Allianz
Release date	12 June 1936
Running time	94 minutes
Country	Germany
Language	German

Tomfoolery (German: Allotria) is a 1936 German comedy film directed by Willi Forst and starring Renate Müller, Jenny Jugo and Anton Walbrook.^[1] It premiered at the in Berlin on 12 June 1936. A pair of friends fall in love with the same woman, before realizing they are really in love with two other women. Racing to his romantic interest, one of the friends (Heinz Rühmann) takes by chance part in the Monaco Grand Prix.

Joseph Goebbels remarked: "Quite energetic and lively. But it's overdone and therefore not totally satisfying. Less would be more." (original: „Sehr flott und mit viel Tempo. Aber übertrieben an Effekten, und darum nicht ganz befriedigend. Weniger wäre mehr.“)

Cast[]

Renate Müller as Viola
Jenny Jugo as Gaby
Anton Walbrook as Philip
Heinz Rühmann as David
Hilde Hildebrand as Aimée
Heinz Salfner as Gabys Vater
Will Dohm as Theodor
as Stewardess
F.W. Schröder-Schrom as Schiffspassagier an Violas Tisch
Julia Serda as Schiffspassagierin an Violas Tisch
Toni Tetzlaff as Mädchen bei Gaby
as Gabys Freundin
Erich Dunskus as Zollbeamter
as Schiffspassagier bei der Überfahrt
as Schiffspassagier bei der Überfahrt
as Schlagersänger der Schiffkapelle
as Angestellte im Schönheitssalon
as Assistant des Rundfunkreporters
as Angestellte im Modesalon
as Barman bei der Modeschau
as Gast bei der Modeschau (as Gustav Mahnke)
as Gast bei der Modeschau
as Französischer Rundfunkreporter
as Französischer Rennbahnhelfer

References[]

^ Hake p.58

Bibliography[]

Hake, Sabine. Popular Cinema of the Third Reich. University of Texas Press, 2001.

External links[]

Tomfoolery at IMDb

This article related to a German film of the 1930s is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by .

[1] Hake p.58

[1]