My Friend Barbara (1937)

8.0/10 80 min Comedy

Overview

Barbara's family is poor and she needs to come up with a way to pay the gas bill. At her job in a cinema she listens to the conversation of a cheating wife and her affair. Barbara offers the husband of the cheating wife, a wealthy chemist, to help him get his wife back. Her plan is a bizarre sharade in which Barbara plays the role of the chemist's affair to make his wife jealous. Of course, this backfires in every way imaginable.

Cast

Grethe Weiser

Barbara

Franz Zimmermann

Frank Andermann

Paul Hoffmann

Dr. Manfred Reinerz, Chemiker und Erfinder

Elisabeth Ried

Stefanie

Ingeborg von Kusserow

Lucie

Manny Ziener

Frau Werner, Barbaras und Ursulas Mutter

Hans Leibelt

Andermann sen.

Jakob Tiedtke

Stockinger

Angelo Ferrari

Geschäftsführer

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