Sunshine Susie

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Sunshine Susie
Ideal Films
Release date
  • 6 December 1931 (1931-12-06)
Running time
80 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

Sunshine Susie is a 1931 British

German-language version The Private Secretary
was made, also starring Renate Müller.

It is also known under the alternative title The Office Girl. The film established Müller as a star in Britain.[3]

Synopsis

A young German woman moves to

conductor, she gains a job as a typist with a banking firm. Unknown to her, the man she takes to be a lowly clerk with the company who romances her at the local beer garden
. is in fact the bank's director.

Cast

Reception

The film was a big hit and was voted the best British film of 1932.[4] Its theme song "Today I Feel So Happy" also became a major hit.[5]

The New York Times though, regretted that the film was "not up to the mark set by the Teutonic work, for the studio acoustics appear to be faulty and in several sequences the director, Victor Saville, has failed to have his scenes as adequately lighted," although the reviewer praised the work of Jack Hulbert and Owen Nares, concluding that "Both give clever performances, the result being that this Gainsborough feature makes for quite a good hour or so of entertainment";[6] and the Motion Picture Herald praised the film as having "a sparkle in every foot."[7]

References

  1. ^ BFI.org
  2. ^ Wood p.73
  3. ^ Bergfelder & Cargnell p.50
  4. ^ "Sunshine Susie". The Daily News. Perth, WA: National Library of Australia. 19 August 1933. p. 19. Retrieved 4 March 2013.
  5. ^ Shafer p.98
  6. ^ "MOVIE REVIEW Gayety and Melody. - NYTimes.com". The New York Times. 23 March 2023.
  7. – via Google Books.

Other film versions

Bibliography

  • Bergfelder, Tim & Cargnelli, Christian. Destination London: German-speaking emigrés and British cinema, 1925–1950. Berghahn Books, 2008.
  • Shafer, Stephen C. British Popular Films, 1929-1939: The Cinema of Reassurance. Routledge, 1997.
  • Wood, Linda. British Films, 1927–1939. British Film Institute, 1986.

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