

After completing work on the British musical Invitation to the Waltz, Lillian Harvey returned to her adopted country of Germany to star in the comedy-with-music Glueckskinder (Children of Fortune). Harvey plays Ann Garden, an unemployed actress who ends up in night court on a loitering charge. Here she meets Gil Taylor (Willy Fritsch), a struggling songwriter temporarily employed as a court reporter. Hoping to keep her out of jail, Gil impulsively tells the judge that he's engaged to Ann -- whereupon the judge, equally impulsively, marries the couple on the spot! After this inauspicious start, Ann and Gil embark upon a rocky (but tuneful) whirlwind romance.
Directed by Paul Martin
User score
10 votes
Released
September 19, 1936
1h 33m
German

Lilian Harvey
Ann Garden

Willy Fritsch
Gil Taylor, Reporter

Paul Kemp
Frank Black, Reporter

Oskar Sima
Stoddard, Reporter
Fred Goebel
Bill
Erich Kestin
Hopkins
Otto Stoeckel
Manning, Editor of the Morning Post

Paul Bildt
Judge

Albert Florath
Oil Tycoon Mr. Jackson
Thomas Cziruchin
Brown, The Boxer
Jac Diehl
Colleague at the Morning Post
Arno Ebert
Visitor to the Metropolitan Opera
Max Hiller
Registrar
Fred Köster
Visitor to the Metropolitan Opera
Hermann Mayer-Falkow
Schaller officer at the Morning Post
Carl Merznicht
Reporter at the speed court

Paul Rehkopf
Colleague at the Morning Post
Kurt Seifert
Restaurateur
Walter Steinweg
Barman