The Girl and the Boy

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The Girl and the Boy
The Girl and the Boy.jpg
Directed by
Written by
Starring
Cinematography Carl Hoffmann
Music by Jean Gilbert
Production
company
UFA
Distributed byL'Alliance Cinématographique Européenne
Release date
  • 5 March 1931 (1931-03-05)
CountryGermany
LanguageFrench

The Girl and the Boy (French : La fille et le garçon) is a 1931 comedy film directed by Roger Le Bon and Wilhelm Thiele and starring Lilian Harvey, Henri Garat, and Lucien Baroux. [1] It was made by the major studio UFA as the French-language version of Two Hearts Beat as One , which also starred Harvey. Such multiple-language versions were common in the early years of sound before dubbing became more widespread.

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  1. Bock & Bergfelder p. 186

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