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Lucky Kids

Lucky Kids

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Status

Released

Release Date

Sep 19, 1936

Runtime

1h 33m

Genres

Romance, Comedy, Music

User Score

67%

Original Title

Glückskinder

Production Companies

UFA

Director

Paul Martin

Description

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.