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• Das Hofkonzert

  • michael mcgee
  • 5/2/11

  Martha Eagerth is a Concert singer. She's going to Austria to search for her father,who had abandoned her and her mother,who was also a concert singer , long ago. She meets boarder guard ,played by johannes Heesters,who tours her the place and sings a duet along the way.Her teacher ,played by Alfred Abel, encourages her career and reminds her of her mothers career which goes in a flash back where now Martha is playing her mother ,in which Martha is singing her concert signature aria.There is mishap where the court actually thinks she's the hired singe for the concert. When she finds out this she laughs and tell everyone she's not the singer being hired. But the real singer get's larengitis. So they hire her and she finally finds her father after the concert, Martha and Johanne sing a duet as they waltz in the end of the film. Because of the political situation She had to leave with her opera acting husband Jan Kepura. Even though she appeared in a few American films. She would become a Broadway star. At this writing she is still living. This movie was available or still is on VHS left overs at German language film center but no subtitles. It was remade in 1945 completed by 1950 in AGFA color ,"Das Kleine Hofkonzert,' starring the Deanna Durban of Austria Elfie Myerhofer

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