The Model Husband (1956 film)

The Model Husband
Directed by	Erik Ode
Written by	Helmuth M. Backhaus Hanns H. Fischer Jacob Geis
Based on	Fair and Warmer (play) by Avery Hopwood
Produced by	Willy Laschinsky Fritz Renner Alfred Bittins
Starring	Harald Juhnke Inge Egger Theo Lingen Gardy Granass
Cinematography	Otto Baecker
Edited by	Anneliese Artelt
Music by	Kurt Wege
Production company	Omega Film
Release date	18 September 1956 (1956-09-18)
Running time	98 minutes
Country	West Germany
Language	German

The Model Husband (German : Der Mustergatte or Kann ein Mann sooo treu sein... ^[1] ) is a 1956 West German comedy film directed by Erik Ode and starring Harald Juhnke, Inge Egger and Theo Lingen. ^[2] It is a remake of the 1937 film The Model Husband , ^[3] which was itself based on the 1915 Avery Hopwood play Fair and Warmer . ^[4] The Film Lexicon found it "[s]ignificantly less funny than its predecessor.” ^[1] As did other commentators. ^[5]

Cast

• Harald Juhnke as Billy Haber
• Inge Egger as Margret Haber
• Theo Lingen as Jakob Wieler
• Gardy Granass as Dolly Wieler
• Boy Gobert as Freddy Evans
• Paul Heidemann as 1. Direktor
• Gert Kollat as 3. Argentinier
• Franz-Otto Krüger as 1. Argentinier
• Sigrid Lagemann as Fanny, Dienstmädchen
• Ursula Lingen as Alma Sedlmayr
• Rolf Weih as 2. Argentinier
• Ralf Wolter as Trainer
• Eddi Arent

References

1. "Kann ein Mann sooo treu sein..." www.filmdienst.de (in German). Retrieved 12 March 2025.
2. Bock & Bergfelder p. 346
3. Blubacher, Thomas (28 October 2022). Drehort Schweiz: Filming Locations von Aarau bis Zwieselberg (in German). Zytglogge Verlag. ISBN   978-3-7296-2389-7.
4. Rühmann, Heinz (1994). Ich bin ein Anhänger der Stille: ein Gespräch mit Heinz Rühmann (in German). Belleville. ISBN   978-3-923646-53-1.
5. Brocks, Manfred (1986). Chronik 1937 (in German). 1Buch GmbH. ISBN   978-3-88379-076-3.

Bibliography

• Bock, Hans-Michael; Bergfelder, Tim, eds. (2009). The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema. New York: Berghahn Books. ISBN   978-1-57181-655-9.

External links

• The Model Husband at IMDb