The Merry Wives (German: Die lustigen Weiber) is a 1936 German comedy film directed by Carl Hoffmann and starring Magda Schneider, Leo Slezak and Ida Wüst.Klaus p.141Bock & Bergfelder p.205 It is based on William Shakespeare's play The Merry Wives of Windsor.Sammons p.88 It was shot at the Halensee Studios in Berlin. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Wilhelm Depenau and Erich Zander.
Cast Magda Schneider as Viola Evans Leo Slezak as Sir John Falstaff Ida Wüst as Frau Fluth/Mistress Ford Maria Krahn as Frau Hurtig/Mistress Page Ellen Frank as Frl. Betty White Otto Wernicke as Herr Fluth/Frank Ford Franz Zimmermann as Valentin Fluth Helmut Weiss as Junker Schwächling Helmut Hoffmann as Fenton Gustav Püttjer as Pistol Erwin van Roy as Nym Armin Schweizer as Herr Page Ruth Claus as Anne Page Eduard Wenck as Mr. Burns Else Reval as Mrs. Burns Wolfgang von Schwindt as Wirt Aribert Grimmer as Bardolf Klaus Pohl as Wächter am Stadttor u. Nachtwächter Curt Ackermann as Ponton Willi Schaeffers as Friedensrichter Kurt Lauermann as Higgins Bote Arthur Reppert as Kutscher v. Heuwagen Horst Birr as Oberpage Pedro
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Bibliography Bock, Hans-Michael & Bergfelder, Tim. The Concise CineGraph. Encyclopedia of German Cinema. Berghahn Books, 2009. Klaus, Ulrich J. Deutsche Tonfilme: Jahrgang 1936. Klaus-Archiv, 1988. Sammons, Eddie. Shakespeare: A Hundred Years on Film. Bloomsbury Academic, 2004.
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