The Leghorn Hat

1939 film

The Leghorn Hat

Directed by| Wolfgang Liebeneiner
Written by| Horst Budjuhn
Bernd Hofmann
Based on| The Italian Straw Hat
by Eugène Labiche
Produced by| Heinz Rühmann
Starring| Heinz Rühmann
Herti Kirchner
Christl Mardayn
Cinematography| Carl Hoffmann
Karl Löb
Edited by| Gottlieb Madl
Music by| Michael Jary

Production
company

Terra Film

Distributed by| Terra Film

Release date

* 4 April 1939 (1939-04-04)

Running time

| 91 minutes
Country| Germany
Language| German

The Leghorn Hat (German: Der Florentiner Hut) is a 1939 German period comedy film directed by Wolfgang Liebeneiner and starring Heinz Rühmann, Herti Kirchner and Christl Mardayn.[1] It is based on the 1851 play The Italian Straw Hat written by Eugène Labiche, which has been adapted for the screen on several occasions.[2]

The film's sets were designed by the art directors Hans Sohnle and Wilhelm Vorwerg. It was shot at the Babelsberg Studios in Berlin. It premiered in Magdeburg on 4 April before opening at the Gloria-Palast in the capital on 18 April.

## Cast

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* Heinz Rühmann as Theo Farina
* Herti Kirchner as Helene Barbock, seine Braut
* Christl Mardayn as Baronin Pamela v. Sarabant
* Paul Henckels as Baron Bubi v. Sarabant
* Victor Janson as Barbock
* Hannsgeorg Laubenthal as Leutnant Emil v. Parade
* Karel Štěpánek as Felix
* Gerda Maria Terno as Virginia
* Helmut Weiss as Bobby
* Hans Hermann Schaufuß as Onkel Florian
* Hubert von Meyerinck as Rosalba
* Elsa Wagner as Baronin Champigny
* Alexa von Porembsky as Clara
* Edith Meinhard as Zofe bei Baronin Champigny
* Paul Bildt as 1.Beamter
* Franz Weber as 2. Beamter
* Leopold von Ledebur as Zürus
* Bruno Fritz as Leierkastenmann
* Ernst Legal as Dienstmann
* Käthe Kamossa as Tante Walpurga

## References

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1. ^ Franz Stadler; Manfred Hobsch (9 November 2015). Die Kunst der Filmkomödie Band 2: 1.000 Filmkomödien (in German). Mühlbeyer Filmbuchverlag. pp. 342–. ISBN 978-3-945378-21-2.
2. ^ Waldman p.251

## Bibliography

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* Waldman, Harry. Nazi Films in America, 1933-1942. McFarland, 2008.

## External links

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* The Leghorn Hat at IMDb

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Films directed by Wolfgang Liebeneiner

* Don't Promise Me Anything (1937)
* The Model Husband (1937)
* You and I (1938)
* Yvette (1938)
* Target in the Clouds (1939)
* The Leghorn Hat (1939)
* Bismarck (1940)
* Ich klage an (1941)
* Her Other Self (1941)
* Melody of a Great City (1943)
* Love '47 (1949)
* Abundance of Life (1950)
* My Niece Susanne (1950)
* When a Woman Loves (1950)
* A Devil of a Woman (1951)
* Gateway to Peace (1951)
* The Blue Star of the South (1951)
* 1\. April 2000 (1952)
* The Stronger Woman (1953)
* The Dancing Heart (1953)
* The Beautiful Miller (1954)
* Love Is Forever (1954)
* On the Reeperbahn at Half Past Midnight (1954)
* Sacred Lie (1955)
* I Was an Ugly Girl (1955)
* Leave on Word of Honour (1955)
* Winter in the Woods (1956)
* The Trapp Family (1956)
* Queen Louise (1957)
* Goodbye, Franziska (1957)
* Sebastian Kneipp (1958)
* The Trapp Family in America (1958)
* Taiga (1958)
* My Daughter Patricia (1959)
* Jacqueline (1959)
* Ingeborg (1960)
* Final Accord (1960)
* I'm Marrying the Director (1960)
* A Woman for Life (1960)
* Schweik's Awkward Years (1964)
* The World Revolves Around You (1964)
* When Sweet Moonlight Is Sleeping in the Hills (1969)
* Goetz von Berlichingen of the Iron Hand (1979)

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