Hello Janine!

  • Marika Rokk: Janine Pomme
  • Johannes Heesters: Count René de Batier
  • Rudi Godden: Pierre Tarin
  • Mady Rahl: Bibi
  • Else Elster: Yvette
  • Kate cooling: Madame Pamion
  • Erich Ponto: Monsieur Pamion
  • Hubert von Meyerinck: servant Jean
  • Ernst Dumcke: Revue Director
  • Edith Meinhard: Charlotte
  • Marjan Lex: Bouboule
  • Marlise Ludwig: landlady
  • Fritz Draeger: Theater guest
  • Paul Ludwig Frey: guest at Pamion
  • Hubert Guidoni: singer
  • Eric Harden: guest at Pamion
  • Karl Jüstel: Theater guest
  • Alfred Karen: theater employees
  • Melitta Klefer: guest at Pamion
  • Gertraude Listmann: barmaid
  • Hanna Lussnigg: barmaid
  • Ferdinand Robert: guest at Pamion
  • Ernst Rotmund: owner of the bar "Golden Monkey "
  • Walter Schramm - Duncker: Bühneninspizient in " Moulin Rouge "
  • Hans Sobierayski: Conductor in " Moulin Rouge "
  • Walter Steinweg: Secretary of the theater director
  • Alfred Stratmann: theater employees
  • Olga Limburg: landlady

Action

Janine is a chorus girl at the Moulin Bleu, which is dominated by star Yvette. Gladly the director of Moulin Bleu Janine would give a chance to show their talent in the major roles, but wants to see Yvette no competition next to him. Yvette but goes to great tour is not foreseen in the Janine. She has other plans: Your friend Charlotte is deeply saddened because her boyfriend Count René de Batier she left sitting without a reason and it now reads in the newspaper that he has become part owner of the music publishing Pamion. Janine promises to take revenge for Charlotte to René. She wants to seduce him and in the end can just sit, like René did it with Charlotte.

Janine goes to the couple Pamion, where she meets a former colleague in the maid Bouboule. Bouboule makes a joke of it, to announce Janine as a marquise, and the couple invites her to dinner, at the Count René to appear. Janine pretends to know the Count since early childhood.

Count René is assumed to better understand the women of Paris. He is a stranger in town and meets in a bar the talented but unsuccessful composer Pierre, with whom he spontaneously pop I do not need millions completed. In a champagne mood both plan to swap roles, so as Pierre René de Batier can even apply for Pamion. René wants to play again in the time the composer Pierre. Both share their homes. On the celebration of the couple Pamion Janine will now face Pierre, who pretends to be René. Janine doing so, as both would have long known and Pierre, who does not know that she 's bluffing, playing with the game. Janine brings him to retreat with her, but is angered when Pierre cites several times that he knew of no Charlotte. Pierre has played in the evening a few pieces of his revue and Janine realizes that she could celebrate with these pieces their breakthrough as a revue star. She goes the next day to Pierre's apartment, but in which René lives. Both fall in love and René passes Janine the Revue with the handwritten note that only Janine should play the main role.

Janine is busy in the lead role, but reacts Yvette horrified. As Janine is invited by René, Charlotte suddenly appears and is disappointed because Janine seduces her former boyfriend. Janine is as stunned and René is upset because he wanted to reveal his true identity Janine on the same day. When René is asked as alleged by Pierre Moulin Bleu, to conduct his Revue also, René and Pierre swap their roles again. Pierre appears in the Revue and is promptly ensnared by Yvette, which relieves him of the promise to be held understudy the lead role now the real star. Janine is now engaged as understudy the lead role and is outraged. René turn, knows that he has committed a mistake and committed to the opening night several dozen cheerleaders that are booing when applied Yvette. All just waiting for his character to copy him. On the evening of the premiere of the piece appears just before Begins Janine on stage and refuses to go. She wants to play the lead role once promised and complains loudly about the machinations of Yvonne. René she hears behind the stage and calls in a low voice, " Hello Janine ". The cheerleaders do it promptly after him and soon true a the whole audience. Behind the stage, Janine is now prepared hurriedly as the lead actress and then shines in the Revue as a dancer and singer. After the presentation, René and Janine meet again in the wardrobe and fall in love in the arms.

Production

Hello Janine was shot in Babelsberg from 8 March to 12 April 1939. From the censorship he received on 27 May 1939, a ban on youth and experienced on 1 July 1939 at the Ufa-Palast in Hamburg its premiere. Berlin premiere was on 11 July 1939.

In the film, several songs are heard, the Peter Kreuder composed and to which Hans Fritz Beckmann wrote the text:

  • I do not need millions
  • Learn to love without crying
  • On top of the world, there stands a stork's nest
  • One, two, three, four, five, six, seven

Criticism

The filmdienst called Hello Janine a " sympathetic entertaining revue comedy, naive and full of pathos, but briskly staged and played well. "

Cinema was that the comedy " with its pathos and the brave dancing [ ... ] today involuntarily shrill [ acts ], then it was a box office hit. [ ... ] Conclusion: exhilarating, old German Singspiel ".

1939 in film Carl Boese Screenplay Universum Film AG Film score Claque
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